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Answer: There are 13 elements named after people, although only 12 of the names are formally accepted by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC).

  • bohrium (Bh, 107) - Niels Bohr
  • curium (Cm, 96) - Pierre and Marie Curie
  • einsteinium (Es, 99) - Albert Einstein
  • fermium (Fm, 100) - Enrico Fermi
  • gallium (Ga, 31) - both named after Gallia (Latin for France) and its discoverer, Lecoq de Boisbaudran (le coq, the French word for 'rooster' translates to gallus in Latin)
  • hahnium (105) - Otto Hahn (Dubnium, named for Dubna in Russia, is the IUPAC-accepted name for element 105)
  • lawrencium (Lr, 103) - Ernest Lawrence
  • meitnerium (Mt, 109) - Lise Meitner
  • mendelevium (Md, 101) - Dmitri Mendeleev
  • nobelium (No, 102) - Alfred Nobel
  • roentgenium (Rg, 111) - Wilhelm Roentgen (formerly Ununumium)
  • rutherfordium (Rf, 104) - Ernest Rutherford
  • seaborgium (Sg, 106) - Glenn T. Seaborg
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