Can you name the authors whose surnames can be made from chemical element symbols? by mrsmith

Can you name the authors whose surnames can be made from chemical element symbols?

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Elements	Author	Full name; example of a published work
Thorium Oxygen Rhenium Gold
Holmium Boron Beryllium Sulfur		Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan (1651)
Gold Sulfur Tellurium Nitrogen
Boron Uranium Potassium Oxygen Tungsten Sulfur Potassium Iodine		Charles Bukowski; Fire Station (1970)
Phosphorus Lanthanum Thorium		Sylvia Plath; Ariel (1964)
Tellurium Nitrogen Nitrogen Yttrium Sulfur Oxygen Nitrogen
Radium Beryllium Lanthanum Iodine Sulfur
Hydrogen Argon Dysprosium
Carbon Hydrogen Gold Carbon Erbium
Bromine Oxygen Tungsten Nitrogen		Dan Brown; The Da Vinci Code (2003)
Fluorine Oxygen
Sodium Boron Oxygen Potassium Oxygen Vanadium		Vladimir Nabokov; Lolita (1955)
Hydrogen Einsteinium Selenium		Hermann Hesse; Steppenwolf (1927)
Sulfur Oxygen Phosphorus Holmium Chlorine Einsteinium		Sophocles; Oedipus Rex (429 BC)
Protactinium Lanthanum Hydrogen Nitrogen Iodine Uranium Potassium		Chuck Palahniuk; Fight Club (1996)

Elements	Author	Full name; example of a published work
Helium Iodine Neon		Heinrich Heine; Romanzero (1851)
Phosphorus Oxygen Uranium Neodymium		Ezra Pound; Ripostes (1912)
Tungsten Aluminium Potassium Erbium		Alice Walker; The Colour Purple (1983)
Rhodium Yttrium Sulfur		Jean Rhys; Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)
Lanthanum Chlorine Osmium
Boron Oxygen Roentgenium Einsteinium		Jorge Luis Borges; The Aleph (1949)
Iodine Boron Selenium Nitrogen		Henrik Ibsen; Peer Gynt (1867)
Bromine Oxygen Nitrogen Tellurium
Phosphorus Uranium Sulfur Hydrogen Potassium Indium		Alexander Pushkin; Eugene Onegin (1837)
Radium Carbon Iodine Neon		Jean Racine; Phèdre (1677)
Lanthanum Tungsten Rhenium Nitrogen Cerium		D H Lawrence; Sons and Lovers (1913)
Carbon Helium Potassium Holmium Vanadium		Anton Chekhov; Uncle Vanya (1897)
Sulfur Tellurium Indium		Gertrude Stein; Three Lives (1909)
Arsenic Iodine Molybdenum Vanadium		Isaac Asimov; The Naked Sun (1957)
Potassium Erbium Oxygen Uranium Actinium		Jack Kerouac; On the Road (1957)

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