Berkelium is element 97, an actinoid of the f block, in period 7. Its ground-state configuration is [Rn] 5f9 7s2, and it usually shows the oxidation states 0, 2, 3, 4.
It was discovered in 1949, by Seaborg.
Name origin: Berkeley, California, where the element was first synthesized.
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