What elements on the periodic table are named after discoverer?

Answer 1

Offhand I can't think of any that are directly named after their discoverer personally.

There are several named after scientists (curium, einsteinium, seaborgium, mendelevium, etc.), but those scientists did not discover these particular elements (Seaborg discovered, or at least participated in the discovery of, several elements, but seaborgium was not one of them; likewise for Curie and curium; Einstein didn't discover any elements).

There are some named after countries: francium and polonium were named after France and Poland... the countries where their discoverer, Marie Curie, was living and was born respectively.

Finally, there are at least two named after an employer: californium and berkelium were named by a team working at the University of California - Berkeley. ("At least" because while lawrencium is supposedly named after Ernest O. Lawrence, it was discovered at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, which was ALSO named after Ernest O. Lawrence, making it a bit ambiguous.)

Answer 2

Elements named after their discoverers include einsteinium (named after Albert Einstein), curium (named after Marie and Pierre Curie), and seaborgium (named after Glenn T. Seaborg).