Quite a few are.
Curium, einsteinium, fermium, mendelevium, nobelium, lawrencium (maybe), rutherfordium, seaborgium, bohrium, meitnerium, roentgenium, and copernicium are all named after scientists.
I'm not sure what you consider "famous". It's perhaps excusable not to know who Ernest Lawrence, Glenn Seaborg, and Lise Meitner were (even though two of them won Nobel prizes and the third should have), but anyone with any degree of knowledge of the history of science should recognize the others.
Lawrencium is a special case. It was discovered at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, so whether it's "really" named after Lawrence or named after the laboratory itself is kind of an open question. However, the reason the lab was called that was because of Ernest Lawrence, so either directly or indirectly it's named after him.
There's also berkelium, which is indirectly named after George Berkeley (it's named after a city that's named after him), who was a philosopher at a time when "philosopher" and "scientist" were regarded as more or less the same thing. (Not-so-incidentally, the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory is associated with the University of California - Berkeley and is now known as the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Guess where berkelium was discovered.)
Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite and founder of the Nobel Prizes, did not have any elements named after him.
There are numerous elements named after scientists, including curium (named after Marie and Pierre Curie), einsteinium (named after Albert Einstein), fermium (named after Enrico Fermi), and seaborgium (named after Glenn T. Seaborg).
After the IUPAC Recommendation 2002 - Naming new elements: The elements can be named after a mythological concept, a mineral, a place or a country, a property or a very known scientist.
Many elements of the periodic table are named in honor of famous scientists.For example,Meitnerium, Mt, is named after Lise Meitner.Bohrium, Bh, is named after Niels Bohr.Curium, Cm, is named after Marie and Pierre Curie.Mendelevium, Md, is named after Dmitri Mendeleev.elements are not alive...they don't name anything.
-Fermium : it was named after nuclear physicist Enrico Fermi -Einsteinium: it was named after Albert Einstein -Mendelevium: it was named after Dimitri Mendeleev :-) :p <3
It's named after scientist Alfred Nobel.
Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite and founder of the Nobel Prizes, did not have any elements named after him.
Einsteinium, lawrencium, Mendelevium, Holmium, Rutherfordium
It was Named after, the scientist, Dimitri Mendeleeve Who was the scientist that created the periodic table.
There are numerous elements named after scientists, including curium (named after Marie and Pierre Curie), einsteinium (named after Albert Einstein), fermium (named after Enrico Fermi), and seaborgium (named after Glenn T. Seaborg).
Curium. Marie Curie, discoverer of radioactivity.
It is named after Dmitri Mendeleev, the scientist who was responsible for devising the periodic table of elements.
Einsteinium and mendelevium, Thorium, Curium, Fermium, Rutherfordium, Bohrium, Seaborgium, etc., etc.
there are many for example: Bohrium : after Niels Bohr Copernicum : After Copernicus Rutherfordium : After Rutherford Many Einsteinium is named after Einstein. Curium after the Curies, Ruthefordium after Rutherford and of course Seaborgium whcih was named after a LIVING famous scientist Glen Seaborg
Holmium was not named after a scientist, it was actually named after the Latin name for Stockholm.
After the IUPAC Recommendation 2002 - Naming new elements: The elements can be named after a mythological concept, a mineral, a place or a country, a property or a very known scientist.
Latin was one of the first languages. Many other languages have Latin roots. And Not all the elements have Latin names. Some are named after famous people and scientist. Such as Einsteinium.