Curium, atomic number 96, named after Marie Curie. Meitnerium, atomic number 109, named after Lise Meitner. Niobium, atomic number 41, was named for the Greek goddess, Niobe.
As of June 2014, there are two elements named after women. Curium was named after Marie Curie and Meitnerium was named after Lise Meitner.
Curium, named for Ms. Curie, and meitnerium, named after Ms. Meitner.
vanadium,niobium,marie curie, meitnerium.
many of the first discovered elements were named by greek and roman philosophers
Scandium is named after the entire Scandinavian peninsula which contains three countries (Norway, Sweden, and Finland). Thulium is named after the northernmost part of the world.
America, the country it was discovered in. Many elements are named after the country where they were first found.
there's Copper Harbor, in MI.
This is valid only if the two elements have the same valence.
Curium, named after Marie (and Pierre) Currie.Meitnerium, named after Lise Meitner.
They are named by the first two letters of their Latin name.
Americium and Europium are the elements named for large regions which include several countries.
sweden and germany
Einsteinium Rutherfordium
There are two elements that are known to be named after ancient lands. These two elements are ruthenium (after the ancient name, Ruthenia, an Eastern European cross-section) and gallium (after Gaul, the ancient name for France).
In the bible there are only two books named after women, both are in the old testament they are Ruth and Esther.
two
Curium is named after Marie Curie and meitnerium is named after Lise Meitner.
There are no elements named after places since an element is atoms which are all the same not a mixture of two types of atoms nor a compound which is more than three.
uranium-uranus plutonium-pluto
Curium after Marie Curie Einsteinium after Albert Einstein