![]() ![]() Rutherfordium is a radioactive material with an extremely short half-life, and only small amounts have been produced. In 1997 the dispute was resolved by assigning the name of Rutherfordium to element 106 and Dubnium to 105 in honor of the location of the Soviet Joint Institute of Nuclear Research. Due to the competing claims, the IUPAC gave element 106 the temporary systemic name Unnilquadium (Unq) the proposed names by the Soviets and the Americans were respectively Kurchatovium (Ku) in honor of Igor Kurchatov, head of Soviet nuclear research, and Rutherfordium, in honor of Ernest Rutherford, who is known as the father of nuclear physics and modern atomic theory. ![]() Rutherfordium was produced in the 1960s in labs in California and the Soviet Union, and both claimed its discovery. American Elements: The Materials Science Company™ | Certified bulk & lab quantity manufacturer of metals, chemicals, nanoparticles & other advanced materials ![]()
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