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  2. Einsteinium - Wikipedia

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    Einsteinium is a synthetic chemical element; it has symbol Es and atomic number 99. It is named after Albert Einstein and is a member of the actinide series and the seventh transuranium element. Einsteinium was discovered as a component of the debris of the first hydrogen bomb explosion in 1952.

  3. List of chemical element name etymologies - Wikipedia

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    Swedish surname eponym Named in honour of Glenn T. Seaborg, who discovered the chemistry of the transuranium elements, shared in the discovery and isolation of ten elements, and developed and proposed the actinide series. · Former names: eka-tungsten, [21] unnilhexium (Unh, '106'): temporary systematic name and symbol. [61] [22] Bohrium (Bh) 107

  4. List of chemical element naming controversies - Wikipedia

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    In 1994, a committee of IUPAC recommended that element 107 be named bohrium (Bh), also in honor of Niels Bohr but using his surname only. While this conforms to the names of other elements honoring individuals where only the surname is taken, it was opposed by many who were concerned that it could be confused with boron , which is called borium ...

  5. Transuranium element - Wikipedia

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    einsteinium, Es, named after Albert Einstein (1952). 100. fermium, Fm, named after Enrico Fermi, the physicist who produced the first controlled chain reaction (1952). 101. mendelevium, Md, named after Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev, credited for being the primary creator of the periodic table of the chemical elements (1955). 102.

  6. List of chemical elements - Wikipedia

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    118 chemical elements have been identified and named officially by IUPAC.A chemical element, often simply called an element, is a type of atom which has a specific number of protons in its atomic nucleus (i.e., a specific atomic number, or Z).

  7. List of things named after Albert Einstein - Wikipedia

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    Einsteinium, an element; Einstein–Szilárd letter, a letter sent to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in August 1939; Einstein Symposium, on the centennial of the "Annus Mirabilis" Einstein–Oppenheimer relationship, on the relationship between the two physicists

  8. List of chemical elements named after people - Wikipedia

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    This list of chemical elements named after people includes elements named for people both directly and indirectly. Of the 118 elements, 19 are connected with the names of 20 people.

  9. Mendelevium - Wikipedia

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    Mendelevium was discovered by bombarding einsteinium with alpha particles in 1955, the method still used to produce it today. It is named after Dmitri Mendeleev, the father of the periodic table. Using available microgram quantities of einsteinium-253, over a million mendelevium atoms may be made each hour. The chemistry of mendelevium is ...