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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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