Which element do you think would have been named by (i) Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (ii) Seaborg’s group?

🔹 (i) Element named by Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory:

✅ Berkelium (Bk)

• Atomic number: 97

• Named after: Berkeley, California, where the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is located.

• Discovered in 1949 by scientists at the University of California, Berkeley.

🔹 (ii) Element named by Seaborg’s group:

✅ Seaborgium (Sg)

• Atomic number: 106

• Named after: Glenn T. Seaborg, a key figure in the discovery of many transuranic elements.

• Seaborg himself was part of the team that discovered this element—making him the first living person to have an element named after them.

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