Which element is named after its inventor?

Answer 1

Mendelevium, element 101 and abbreviated Md, was named in honor of Dmitri Mendeleev (note the spelling difference) who came up with the first working concept of a Periodic Table.

Answer 2

Elements are not invented. They are either discovered or synthesized and since elements (with one exception) are not named after living people, the discoverer does not get to name it after himself or herself (which would be deemed rather arrogant in any event). Elements have been named after people who discovered other elements, but not the element that was given their name. For instance curium, named after Marie Curie, who discovered radium and polonium, but not curium, or Seaborgium (after Glenn Seaborg, who discovered many transuranium elements, but not the one given his name while he was still alive). So no element has been named after its discoverer or synthesizer.

Answer 3

The element Nobelium was named after Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel. He invented dynamite from nitroglycerin and diatomaceous earth in 1867.

Answer 4

The synthetic element nobelium was named after Alfred Nobel, the man who invented dynamite.

Answer 5

Element 104, Rutherfordium, is named after Ernest Rutherford, the New Zealand physicist who is considered the father of nuclear physics.

Answer 6

Alfred Nobel invented dynamite

Answer 7

No, Nobelium, named after Alfred Nobel

Answer 8

Nobelium

Answer 9

Nobelium