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1833–1896
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and inventor of dynamite, who left his fortune to found the Nobel Prizes.
Element
102NoNobelium
1963
Teams in Moscow, Stockholm, Berkeley and Dubna claimed element 102 from 1956 onwards, and argued for decades about who was first. The name nobelium, after Alfred Nobel, from the Stockholm claim, has stuck.
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