They all have a link to the periodic table, which turned 150 in 2019 ... That in itself makes it extremely cool. Curium, named after the double Nobel laureate Marie Curie and her husband Pierre ...

This year marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of Mendeleev’s Periodic Table of Chemical Elements in 1869. In celebration, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural ...

Glen T. Seaborg and his co-workers had named americium to parallel the lanthanide above it in the periodic table, europium. They went on to name curium and berkelium in a way that was also derived ...

But there's at least one substance in the periodic table that was named in response to a nearby element ... it's an improvement on the provisional names given to americium and curium (discovered at ...