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Elements Named After People

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Rated 15 points - posted 14 years ago by mdolleris in category Science.

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Einsteinium (Albert Einstein)

This element is a synthetic element and is extremely radioactive and highly toxic.

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seaborgium

# (Sg, 106) — Glenn T. Seaborg

26 points - added 14 years ago by mdolleris - 4 comments

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this is sooo great thanx

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this helps me a lot thx

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Gadolinium

Gadolinium is named from the mineral gadolinite, which is named after the Finnish chemist/geologist Johan Gadolin.

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helped me with home work

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Mendelevium (Dmitri Mendeleev)

Mendeleev is credited as being the creator of the first version of the periodic table of elements. With it, he predicted the properties of elements yet to be discovered.

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Curium (Pierre and Marie Curie)

Marie Curie and her husband Pierre are famous for discovering radium and for their work in radioactivity.

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Niobium (Niobe, a mortal woman in Greek mythology)

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Lawrencium (Ernest Lawrence)

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Titanium (the Titans, from Greek mythology)

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Roentgenium (Wilhelm Roentgen)

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Meitnerium (Lise Meitner)

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Fermium (Enrico Fermi)

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Nobelium (Alfred Nobel)

Scientists in 1957 at the Nobel Institute in Sweden claimed to have discovered this element.

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Tantalum (Tantalus, from Greek mythology)

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Promethium (Prometheus, a Titan from Greek mythology)

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Rutherfordium (Ernest Rutherford)

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Bohrium (Niels Bohr)

Some scientists suggested the name nielsbohrium, but the naming committee rejected that since there was no precedent for using a scientist's complete name in the naming of an element. So now it's just bohrium.

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Californium

Named after the State of California

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Samarium

Samarium is named from the mineral samarskite which is named after Vasili Samarsky-Bykhovets, a Russian mine official.