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Fermium was first identified in debris from a hydrogen bomb test in 1953 by this group of scientists:

Albert Ghiorso, Stanley G. Thompson, Gary H. Higgins, Glenn T. Seaborg, Martin H. Studier, P.R. Fields, Sherman M. Fried, H. Diamond, J.F. Mech, G.L. Pyle, John R. Huizenga, A. Hirsch, W.M. Manning, C.I. Browne, H. Louise Smith, R.W. Spence in USA.

The name fermium is derived from the name of the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi.

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