Re: Name those elements (fwd)

[Carol Simpson <csimpson@TENET.EDU>]

This response to the query about names of elements over #104 comes from
my brother, Dr. Michael Pirrung, Professor of Chemistry at Duke University:

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Date: Mon, 28 Nov 1994 16:00:29 -0500
From:MPirrung@aol.com
To: csimpson@tenet.edu
Subject: Re: Name those elements (fwd)

I have seen articles recently in either/or Science (Washington DC) or
Chemical and Engineering News about the names of elements in that area.
  There has just been a controversy about the naming of one of them
seaborgium, after its discoverer and Nobel laureate Glenn Seaborg of the UC
Berkeley Chem Dept.  The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
(IUPAC) has rejected this name, despite the fact that the discovering team
usually gets to name its element, partly because Seaborg is still alive.