What are 5 elements named after people?

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Answer 1 · 2016-09-20T21:54:08

Seventeen elements are named after people.

The five most recent elements to be named after people are:

$""_118"Og"(sf"Oganesson")"$ ; named after the Russian nuclear physicist Yuri Oganessian (discovered in 2002; named in 2016.)
$""_116"Lv" (sf"Livermorium")$ ; named for the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory in Livermore, California, which is in turn named after a rancher, who had the last name of Livermore (discovered in 2000; named in 2012)
$""_114"Fl" (sf"Flerovium")$ ; named for the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions in Dubna, Russia. The name of the laboratory, in turn, honours the Russian physicist, Georgy Flerov (discovered in 1998; named in 2012.)
$""_112"Cn"(sf"Copernicium")$ ; Nicolaus Copernicus (discovered in 1996; named in 2009)
$""_111"Rg" (sf"Roentgenium")$ ; Wilhelm Roentgen (discovered in 1994; named in 2004)

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(Adapted from www.ptable.com)