 Glenn T. Seaborg , a scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory who had been involved in work to synthesize such superheavy elements , had said in December 1997 that " one of his longest @-@ lasting and most cherished dreams was to see one of these magic elements " ; he was told of the synthesis of flerovium by his colleague Albert Ghiorso soon after its publication in 1999 . Ghiorso later recalled : 
