Stephen L. Carter, Columnist

‘Black Panther’ Lost at the Oscars But Won in Chemistry Class

The movie turns out to be the best picture for helping students learn the significance of the periodic table.

February 25, 2019 at 2:20 PM UTC

Stephen L. Carter is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist, a professor of law at Yale University and author of “Invisible: The Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster.”

Their movie won the 2018 award for best new chemical element.
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Now that “Black Panther,” the best movie of 2018, has failed to win the Academy Award for Best Picture, let’s talk about the periodic table of the elements.

Wait, what?