An example is francium (Fr).
It is "Curie" and the element is curium. Polonium is also named after their home country of Poland.
The name of the chemical element is derived from Polonia because Marie Curie was born in Poland.
The element named after the Greek name for the sun is Helium.
Hafnium is named after Hafnia, the Latin name for Copenhagen, where it was discovered.
Polonium (Po, #84) is named for Poland. It was discovered by Marie Curie, and she was from Poland, so she got to name it. It's really radioactive.
The element named in honor of Marie Curie's home country of Poland is polonium. Discovered by Curie and her husband Pierre in 1898, polonium is a rare and highly radioactive element. Its symbol is Po, and it was named to recognize Curie's Polish heritage.
The name of the chemical element is derived from Polonia.
95 Americium 31 Gallium 32 Germanium 84 Polonium 87 Francium
The element polonium was named for the country Poland.
No element was named for an American president. Rutherfordium has the name of Rutherford Hayes but was named for the physicist Ernest Rutherford.
Gallium is named after France, the Latin name for which is "Gallia." The element was named in honor of France by its discoverer, French chemist Paul-Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, in 1875.