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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.
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. 15 elements were named to honor 16 scientists (as curium honours both Marie and Pierre Curie). Four others have indirect connection to the names of non-scientists. [1]
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.
41 of the 118 known elements have names associated with, or specifically named for, places around the world or among astronomical objects. 32 of these have names tied to the places on Earth, and the other nine are named after to Solar System objects: helium for the Sun; tellurium for the Earth; selenium for the Moon; mercury (indirectly), uranium, neptunium and plutonium after their respective ...
Albert Einstein Middle School, Shoreline School District, Washington, United States; Albert-Einstein-Schule, a German gymnasium in Bochum, Germany; Albert Einstein International School of San Pedro Sula, a college preparatory school in San Pedro Sula, Honduras; A high school named after Albert Einstein in Ben Shemen Youth Village, Israel
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The International Union of Pure and Applied Physics named 2005 the "World Year of Physics" in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the publication of the annus mirabilis papers. [13] The chemical element 99, einsteinium, was named for him in August 1955, four months after Einstein's death.
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