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Elements discovered by Berkeley Laboratory physicists include astatine, neptunium, plutonium, curium, americium, berkelium, californium, einsteinium, fermium, mendelevium, nobelium, lawrencium, dubnium, and seaborgium.

Berkelium and Californium are named for the University (city) and the state.

The elements Lawrencium and Seaborgium are named after Professors Lawrence and Seaborg

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What is the element named for a city in the US?

Berkelium has been named after Berkeley,CA


Who Cf in the periodic table named after?

Cf in the periodic table is named after the University of California, Berkeley, where the element was first discovered in 1950. The element californium was named after the state of California in the United States where the university is located.


What element is named for Berkeley a city in California were many new elements were created?

Berkellum


What is the only chemical element named after an American state?

Californium is the only element named after a U.S. state. Its atomic number is 98.It's radioactive and was discovered in Berkeley university and named after California.


What element is named after state of California?

That element is Berkelium, symbol "Bk" and atomic number 97, a radioactive element in the heavy "actonoid" series. Berkelium is named after the Californian university town of Berkeley where it was first synthesized. Scientists at the University of California's Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (simply known as "Berkeley Lab") first synthesized Berkelium in 1949. They created it by bombarding a small piece of Americium ("Am" atomic number 95) with alpha particles within a cyclotron.


What element is named for a university on the west coast in the US?

Both Berkelium and Californium were named after the University of California, Berkeley. Those elements (and several others) were discovered at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, which is managed and operated by the university.


What elements were named for a university on the west coast of the U.S.?

The 98th element on the periodic table is known as Californium (Cf). It was first made in 1950 at the University of California Radiation Laboratory, in Berkeley. The 97th element on the periodic table was also named after it's original production site. Berkelium (Bk) was discovered in 1949, also at the University of California Radiation Laboratory, in Berkeley.


What element in the periodic table is named after a university?

The elements berkelium and californium are named after the University of California. Note that the latter element is named for the state of California as well as the University itself.


What element was named after e o Lawrence who let who invented cyclotron?

The element lawrencium (symbol Lr) was named after Ernest O. Lawrence, who invented the cyclotron in 1932. Lawrence was an American physicist and the founder of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.


What places were named after John Lord Berkeley?

Berkeley County in South Carolina :)


What element was named by Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory?

Elements discovered by Berkeley Lab physicists include astatine, neptunium, plutonium, curium, americium, berkelium*, californium*, einsteinium, fermium, mendelevium, nobelium, lawrencium*, dubnium, and seaborgium*. Those elements listed with asterisks (*) are named after the University, Professors Lawrence and Seaborg.


What was berkelium named after?

After Berkeley (California, USA).