It is named after Marie Curie and her husband Pierre Curie
There is no widely recognized scientist named Colette Stancel, therefore she is not famous in the scientific community.
No he's a football player well at least Juan LozAno is. Maybe Juan Lozeno is a faous scientist who i don't know?
One famous Australian scientist is Dr. Fiona Wood, a plastic surgeon known for her pioneering work in developing spray-on skin for burn victims. She was also named Australian of the Year in 2005 for her contributions to medicine.
Hertz is a unit named after the German physicist Heinrich Hertz. The hertz (Hz) is used to measure frequency in cycles per second.
Mercury, Uranium, and Neptunium were named after Mercury, Uranus, and Neptune (respectively). Although technically not a planet, Plutonium was named after Pluto.
Meitnerium, element number 109 is named for Lise Meitner, and Curium is named after Marie Curie and her husband Pierre.
Curium is named after Marie Curie.
Curium, named after Marie Curie.
Curium
Curium. Marie Curie, discoverer of radioactivity.
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
Curium was named after Marie Curie because they haven't have found another name that they thought of so they named it after the scientist who found radium
Curium, named after Marie (and Pierre) Currie.Meitnerium, named after Lise Meitner.
Curium
Einsteinium and mendelevium, Thorium, Curium, Fermium, Rutherfordium, Bohrium, Seaborgium, etc., etc.
-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
Several new elements were named after famous scientists. Examples include Rutherfordium(Ernst Rutherford), Bohrium(Niels Bohr) and Einsteinium(Albert Einstein).