What elements are named after scientist?

Answer 1

Quite a few are.

Curium, einsteinium, fermium, mendelevium, nobelium, lawrencium (maybe), rutherfordium, seaborgium, bohrium, meitnerium, roentgenium, and copernicium are all named after scientists.

I'm not sure what you consider "famous". It's perhaps excusable not to know who Ernest Lawrence, Glenn Seaborg, and Lise Meitner were (even though two of them won Nobel prizes and the third should have), but anyone with any degree of knowledge of the history of science should recognize the others.

Lawrencium is a special case. It was discovered at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, so whether it's "really" named after Lawrence or named after the laboratory itself is kind of an open question. However, the reason the lab was called that was because of Ernest Lawrence, so either directly or indirectly it's named after him.

There's also berkelium, which is indirectly named after George Berkeley (it's named after a city that's named after him), who was a philosopher at a time when "philosopher" and "scientist" were regarded as more or less the same thing. (Not-so-incidentally, the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory is associated with the University of California - Berkeley and is now known as the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Guess where berkelium was discovered.)

Answer 2

Examples, in alphabetical order: bohrium, copernicium, curium, einsteinium, fermium, lawrencium, meitnerium, mendelevium, nobelium, roentgenium, rutherfordium, seaborgium; and this year probable flerovium.

Answer 3

Johan Gadolin

1760-1852FinnishGadoliniumGd64

Marie Skłodowska-Curie

Pierre Curie

1867-1934

1859-1906Polish

French

CuriumCm96

Einstein, Albert

1879-1955JewEinsteiniumEs99Enrico Fermi

1901-1954ItalianFermiumFm100Dmitri Mendeleev

1834-1907RussianMendeleviumMd101Alfred Nobel

1833-1896SwedishNobeliumNo102Ernest Lawrence

1901-1958AmericanLawrenciumLr103Ernest Rutherford

1871-1937New Zealander-EnglishRutherfordiumRf104Glenn T. Seaborg

1912-1999AmericanSeaborgiumSg106Niels Bohr

1885-1962JewBohriumBh107Lise Meitner

1878-1968JewMeitneriumMt109Wilhelm Röntgen

1845-1923GermanRoentgeniumRg111Nicolaus Copernicus

1473-1543PolishCoperniciumCn112Georgy Flerov

1913-1990RussianFleroviumFl114

and perhaps gallium which was discovered by Pierre LeCoq de Boisbaudran (gallus is rooster in Latin- although modestly LeCoq said he named it after France (Gallia in Latin)

Answer 4

* Curium (Cm) - Marie Curie * Einsteinium (Es) - Albert Einstein * Fermium (Fm) - Enrico Fermi * Mendeleevium (Md) - Dmitri Mendeleev * Nobelium (No) - Alfred Nobel * Rutherfordium (Rf) - Ernest Rutherford * Seaborgium (Sg) - Glenn T. Seaborg * Bohrium (Bh) - Niels Bohr * Meitnerium (Mt) - Lise Meitner * Roentgenium (Rg) - Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen Lawrencium and berkelium are named after places that were themselves named after people.

Answer 5

Quite a few are.

Curium, einsteinium, fermium, mendelevium, nobelium, lawrencium (maybe), rutherfordium, seaborgium, bohrium, meitnerium, roentgenium, and copernicium are all named after scientists.

I'm not sure what you consider "famous". It's perhaps excusable not to know who Ernest Lawrence, Glenn Seaborg, and Lise Meitner were (even though two of them won Nobel prizes and the third should have), but anyone with any degree of knowledge of the history of science should recognize the others.

Lawrencium is a special case. It was discovered at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, so whether it's "really" named after Lawrence or named after the laboratory itself is kind of an open question. However, the reason the lab was called that was because of Ernest Lawrence, so either directly or indirectly it's named after him.

There's also berkelium, which is indirectly named after George Berkeley (it's named after a city that's named after him), who was a philosopher at a time when "philosopher" and "scientist" were regarded as more or less the same thing. (Not-so-incidentally, the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory is associated with the University of California - Berkeley and is now known as the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Guess where berkelium was discovered.)

Answer 6

Bohr, Copernicus, Curie, Einstein, Fermi, Gadolin, Lawrence, Meitner, Mendeleyev, Nobel, Röntgen, Rutherford, Samarsky-Bykhovets and Seaborg.

Some names, derived from these, may not be officially in use any more.

Cf 'Related links' just below this answer.

Answer 7

Einsteinium, Curium, Barium, Fermium, Gallium, Hahnium, Lawrencium, Meitnerium, Mendelevium, Nobelium, Roentgenium (formerly ununumium),Rutherfordium, and Seaborgium.

Answer 8

Few names are named after scientists. One is nobelium. Another is einstineum. That's all I'll say.

Answer 9

Rutherfordium,Seaborgium,Bohrium,Meitnerium,Roentgenium,Ununbium,Ununquddium,Gadolium,Curium,Einstenium,Fermium,Mendelevium,nobelium,Lawrencium...

Answer 10

Well, some famous scientists name are John Donalis, Bruce Anderson and Adam Loughry