Example sentences for: curium

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  • Elements named after scientists include Curium, Mendelevium, Einsteinium, Nobelium (actually this was named after Sweden's Nobel Institute, not directly after Alfred Nobel), and Lawrencium .

  • Other scientists with eponymous atoms include the discoverers of radium, Pierre and Marie Curie (element 96, Curium, symbol Cm, discovered in 1944), Ernest O. Lawrence, founder of the Lawrence Berkeley and Lawrence Livermore laboratories (element 103, Lawrencium, symbol Lr, synthesized in 1961), and, of course, Albert Einstein (element 99, Einsteinium, symbol Es, created in 1952)—the only instance of an atom named after someone still living at the time of its discovery.


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