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Alfred Nobel's eponymous element, nobelium, was 'first' discovered either in the 1950s or 1960s, in the USSR, Sweden or the USA. Brett F. Thornton and Shawn C. Burdette delve into the ensuing decades of internecine strife over the discovery of element 102.

Luminescence decay time measurements have been performed on the Lyman-Birge-Hopfield and fourth positive systems of nitrogen and on the beta and gamma systems of NO. Conclusions on the variation of the transition moment with internuclear separation can be drawn from the lifetime results.