Americium and curium chemistry and technology : papers from a symposium given at the 1984 International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies, Honolulu, Hawaii, December 16-21, 1984

I Historical Aspects and General Papers.- The 40th Anniversary of the Discovery of Americium and Curium.- Reminiscences of an Instrumentalist.- Americium, Its Early History and Gram-Scale Separation.- 20 Years of Americium and Curium Research at the European Institute for Transuranium Elements.- Frontiers of Chemistry for Americium and Curium.- II Solution Chemistry and Analytical Procedures.- Studies of Americium and Curium Solution Chemistry in the USSR.- Coulometric Determination of Americium and Curium for the Preparation of Reference Solutions.- A Study on the Stability of Americium(V) and Americium(VI) in Nitrate Media.- Radiopolarographic Study of Americium and Curium.- Americium Titration Methods.- III Electronic Structure and Thermodynamics.- Electronic Structure of Neutral and Singly Ionized Curium.- Shifted Homologous Relationships Between the Transplutonium and Early Rare-Earth Metals.- Thermodynamic Systematics of Oxides of Americium, Curium, and Neighboring Elements.- Preparation and Properties of Some New Curium Compounds.- The Electronic and Magnetic Properties of Am and Cm.- Delocalisation of 5f Electrons in Americium Metal Under Pressure: Recent Results and Comparison with Other Actinides.- Preparation, Characterization and Solubility Product Constant of AmOHCO3.- IV Nuclear Studies, Environmental Studies, Separations, and Other Technological Aspects.- Heavy Ion Reactions on Curium Targets.- Synthesis of Transuranium Nuclides from Interaction of 16O with 238U.- A Study of the Production of Transuranium Elements and Its Application to the Solution Chemistry in Tohoku University.- Geochemical Studies on Americium and Plutonium in Soil.- Production and Recovery of Americium-241.- Production of Americium Isotopes in France.- Americium Metal Preparation on the Multigram Scale.