Chemical Element Namesake

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Chemical Element Namesake

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Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

Niels Bohr Physicist 7-Oct-1885 18-Nov-1962 Father of Quantum Theory

Marie Curie Chemist 7-Nov-1867 4-Jul-1934 Early nuclear chemist

Pierre Curie Physicist 15-May-1859 19-Apr-1906 Early investigator of radiation

Albert Einstein Physicist 14-Mar-1879 18-Apr-1955 Theory of relativity

Enrico Fermi Physicist 29-Sep-1901 29-Nov-1954 First controlled nuclear chain reaction

Otto Hahn Chemist 8-Mar-1879 28-Jul-1968 Demonstrated fission

Ernest Lawrence Physicist 8-Aug-1901 27-Aug-1958 Inventor of the cyclotron

Lise Meitner Physicist 7-Nov-1878 27-Oct-1968 Discovered nuclear fission

Dmitri Mendeleev Chemist 8-Feb-1834 2-Feb-1907 Periodic Table of the Elements

Alfred Nobel Inventor 21-Oct-1833 10-Dec-1896 Dynamite inventor, established Nobel Prize

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen Physicist 27-Mar-1845 10-Feb-1923 Discovered X-Rays

Ernest Rutherford Physicist 30-Aug-1871 19-Oct-1937 Father of nuclear physics

Glenn Seaborg Physicist 19-Apr-1912 25-Feb-1999 Co-Discoverer of Plutonium

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