curium
cu·rium
noun
a radioactive transuranic metallic element; produced by bombarding plutonium with helium nuclei
Origin
From Curie + -ium (suffix forming names of metallic elements), coined by the American scientists Glenn T. Seaborg (1912-1999), Ralph A. James (1920-1973), and Albert Ghiorso (1915-2010), who synthesized the element in 1944 and named it in honour of Pierre Curie (1859-1906) and Marie Skłodowska Curie (1867-1934) who, with Henri Becquerel, were awarded the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries in radioactivity.
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