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Periodic Table Live! allows you to explore a broad range of information about the elements, their reactions, their properties, their structures, and their histories.
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Acknowledgments
Many of the images and the video in Periodic Table Live! are taken from the Periodic Table CD and the Periodic Table Videodisc.
The Periodic Table CD was produced with partial support from Images of Chemistry, funded by grant MDR-9154099, National Science Foundation, Directorate for Education and Human Resources and Project CATALYST partially funded with equipment from International Business Machines, Inc. The director of Images of Chemistry and Project CATALYST is John W. Moore.
The Periodic Table Videodisc was produced by Project SERAPHIM and funded by grant MDR-8751262, National Science Foundation, Directorate for Science & Engineering Education and Department of Education, FIPSE. The directors of Project SERAPHIM are John W. Moore and J. J. Lagowski.
- Producers: A. J. Banks, N. H. Cominos
- Directors: Robert Potter, Stephen Mims
- Camera: Alex Herrera, Luther Bradfute, Byron Thomas, Paul Broz
- Editor: Alex Herrera
- Laboratory Assistant: Susan Johnson
The Periodic Table Videodisc was produced at The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Chemistry in cooperation with the Department of Radio-TV-Film.
- Post Production: KLRU-TV, Austin, Texas
- On-line Editor: Dan Martaus
Additional images and video clips in the second edition of the Periodic Table Videodisc were produced by Images of Chemistry, funded by grant MDR-9154099, National Science Foundation, Directorate for Education and Human Resources. The director of Images of Chemistry is John W. Moore.
- Producer: Jerrold J. Jacobsen
Images and video clips for the elements rubidium and cesium included in the second edition of the Periodic Table Videodisc are excerpts from Close-Up on Chemistry, ACS Video Course No. V-5000, American Chemical Society: Washington, DC, 1990. Copyright 1990 American Society. Used with permission.
The producers would like to thank the following companies and individuals for materials that made The Periodic Table Videodisc possible:
- The Aluminum Association Incorporated
- American Iron and Steel Institute
- American Neon
- Atlas Aircraft Corporation
- Atomic Industrial Forum
- Austin Tools, Inc.
- Austin Toyota
- Catherine and Jonathan Banks
- Tom Bauer
- Lee Benson
- Debora Bittaker
- Steve Bratteng
- Larry Bredthauer, DVM
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- Benjamin Bush
- Cadmium Council, Inc.
- Cambridge Instruments
- Carbide Corporation
- Alberta Castenada
- Rebecca Chambers
- Chemetals Corporation
- Chem-Tronics
- City of Austin - Generation Division
- Copper Development Association, Inc.
- James Crawford
- Glenn A. Crosby
- Raymond E. Davis
- Degussa Corporation
- Dow Corning
- Dynamet Incorporated
- E. I. DuPont de Nemours & Co., Inc.
- Eastman Kodak
- Englehard Corporation
- ENTEX, Inc.
- Eveready Battery Company, Inc.
- The Fansteel Corporation
- John W. Fitch III
- Georgia Marble Company
- Gold Information Center
- Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
- Great Lakes Chemical Company
- Harshaw-Fitrol Partnership
- Sally Hausemann
- Hays Memorial Hospital
- Highland Superstores, Inc.
- James A. Holcombe
- Indium Corporation of America
- International Lead Zinc Research Organization
- International Tin Research Institute
- James Irvin
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Edward Jonas
- J. J. Lagowski
- Lithium Corporation of America
- K. Dan Millikin
- Molycorp, Inc.
- Monsanto Chemical Company
- John and Betty Moore
- NASA
- National Air and Space Museum
- National Bureau of Standards
- Oregon Metallurgical Corporation
- Susan Perry
- Potash & Phosphate Institute
- Rhone-Poulenc Chimie
- Grady Rollins
- San Marcos Telephone Company, Inc.
- Sandia National Laboratory
- Linda Sheppard
- Ben A. Shoulders
- Southwest Texas State University: Chemistry and Physics Departments
- The Stackpole Corporation
- St. Davidês Hospital
- Donna Starnes
- The Sulphur Institute
- Teledyne Wah Chang Albany
- Texas Light Bulb Supply Company
- Tin Research Institute, Inc.
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- Titanium Development Association
- Titanium Industries
- Tetech International, Inc.
- U. S. Borax & Chemical Company
- U. S. Naval Observatory
- United States Navy
- University of Texas Press
- The University of Texas at Austin: Chemistry and Geology Departments, and Physical Plant Waterloo Records
- Whole Earth Provision Company
- Mark Williams, DVM
- Gary Winek
- The Zinc Institute, Inc.
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