 Discovery Information |
| Who: Physicists at the
Heavy Ion Research Laboratory
|
| When: 1982 |
| Where: Darmstadt, West Germany |
|
| Name Origin |
| Named after Lise Meitner, a Swedish physicist who helped discover protactinium and first split the nucleus of uranium, creating what her team dubbed "fission". |
|
| Sources |
| First synthetically produced by bombarding Bi209 with accelerated
nuclei
of Fe58. |
|
| Uses |
| None. |
|
| Notes |
| In August of 1997 the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry announced the official naming of this
element
as Meitnerium. |
| Element 109 was previously known as Unnilennium; from the latin for "one zero nine". |
