AT a symposium held by the American Chemical Society at Syracuse University on June 30, J. A. Marinsky and L. E. Glendenin, who during the War had succeeded in separating element 61 from the other ...

Kosuke Morita, who led a group of researchers that discovered element 113, speaks at a press conference at in Tokyo on June 9. The name nihonium stems from the fact that element 113 was discovered ...

The first synthesis of element 113 took place in July 2004, and two other events, in April 2005 and August 2012, led to recognition from IUPAC that the group has earned naming rights to the new ...

The first synthesis of element 113 took place in July 2004, and two other events, in April 2005 and August 2012, led to recognition from IUPAC that the group has earned naming rights to the new ...

In honor of scientist and astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), the discovering team around Professor Sigurd Hofmann suggested the name "copernicium" with the element symbol "Cp" for the new ...

IUPAC accepted the name proposed by the international discovering team around Sigurd Hofmann at the GSI Helmholtzzentrum. The team had suggested "Cp" as the chemical symbol for the new element.

The element was then temporarily given the catchy name of Ununbium, after “ununbi” which is latin for “one one two”. However, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry ( IUPAC , which ...