finding Asimov's 3 short essays

any chance to help finding origins or more references of Asimov's 3
short essays about:
1. his father gave him his best present of a dictionary instead of
buying him any toys?
2. a Saturday Magazine criticizing the USA politics linked to some
sorts of ghost/spirit of Franklin?
3. the most expensive bullet which cost the life of a young
scientist who wrote the Element Table?

thanks in advance

In article <482a619a-dc1a-4845-b210-c5b809dbec87.TakeThisOut@c23g2000hsa.googlegroups.com>, cellrico.TakeThisOut@gmail.com wrote:

: 3. the most expensive bullet which cost the life of a young
: scientist who wrote the Element Table?

Don't know about the first two, but this one is "The Nobel Prize That
Wasn't," which is about Moseley. Moseley didn't "write" the periodic
table; he discovered that X-ray spectroscopy could be used to order
the elements, and thus demonstrated that the correct ordering of the
elements could be determined independently of their chemical properties.
Since the correct ordering matches that determined by using their
chemical properties, Moseley essentially proved that Mendeleev had
been correct in his belief that ordering them according to chemical
properties rather than atomic weights would give the correct sequence.

According to the list at http://www.asimovonline.com, it first appeared
in the April 1970 issue of F&SF, and was reprinted in _The Stars in
Their Courses_. By the way, the Asimov Online site has the essays
cross-referenced by topic; you might find the other two by searching
the index there.

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