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Naturally enough, Mosander named the new element Ytterbium, after the town.
The new one got called Ytterbium (Yb) and Mosander's original find got the name Yttrium (Y).
Or you could arrange to have an element named after your hometown or your country: Scandium, Polonium, Europium, Francium, Americium, Germanium, Berkelium, Californium, Yttrium , and Ytterbium , the last two being elements named after the Swedish town where they were discovered.
In 1878 the Swiss chemist Marignac further isolated ytterbium , and in 1879 the Swedish chemist Cleve distinguished holmium (named for Stockholm) and thulium (from Thule, the farthest land known to the Greeks).
In 1907 the French chemist Urbain separated lutetium from ytterbium, naming it for his native Paris (Roman name Lutetia ).