ABSTRACT
It was 6:30 on the morning of Sunday February 14th, 1988 and an experiment designed to repeat and confirm our element 109 findings had just ended. All physical results should be reproducible so we felt we should do so – and again we were successful. Only one atom had been observed in the 1982 experiment and now we found another. It took a load off our minds. Now, closing the door on element 109 and the lighter elements, a new era of experiments could begin. Simultaneously, major changes were taking place at GSI as people left and were replaced, and many of the experimental arrangements changed too.
