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1473–1543
Nicolaus Copernicus
Put the Sun, not the Earth, at the centre of the planets.
Element
112CnCopernicium
1996
In 1996 a team led by Sigurd Hofmann at GSI in Darmstadt fired zinc at lead for two weeks and made element 112. It was named copernicium, after Nicolaus Copernicus.
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Where the dates and stories on this page come from; each event on the timeline links to its own source. 19 February in the Julian calendar of his time, the date his birthday is marked on; IUPAC named copernicium on it in 2010.
- Nicolaus CopernicusEncyclopaedia Britannica
- CoperniciumRoyal Society of Chemistry
- Nicolaus CopernicusWikipedia