The nuclear physicists or the late 1800s referred to themselves as an orthodoxy of scientists, especially those who worked in the field of the transmutation of the elements. This was the field that started in the late 1800s and culminated with the production of the atomic bomb in 1945. Many of the scientists thought long and hard about how this community of scientists managed themselves. Who decided what to work on, who decided what theories were correct, what was it that made the whole process of discovery move forward to untangle this puzzle of how the atom was composed, how elements could be modified by irradiation and how elements were to be catalogued. We take the periodic chart of the elements for granted today, but someone had to devise the logic of how to arrange all the elements in a logical manner. This logical manner, once devised, led the scientist in predicting what elements could exist but not yet discovered. Some could be created by bombardment of...