About Seaborgium

This section of my web site is dedicated to the 106th element, which I like to know as Seaborgium, no matter what IUPAC (the committee which is charge of chemistry standards such as element names) calls it. You see, IUPAC let the Americans group who discovered the element name it, and they named it after Glenn Seaborg who discovered about fourteen elements. But then they wanted to change it saying that an element can't be named after a living person.

Anyway, you can read about it in these press releases:

Press Release about Seaborgium and Glenn Seaborg (March 18, 1994)
Press Release for Name Change considered (October 14, 1994)
Another Press Release (May 12, 1995)
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Glenn T. Seaborg

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