Mr Element 118: The only living person on the periodic table
By Richard Gray
You’re the only person alive to have an element named after them. How does it feel to join the likes of Albert Einstein and Marie Curie?
For me, it is an honour. The discovery of element 118 was by scientists at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Russia and at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the US, and it was my colleagues who proposed the name oganesson. My children and grandchildren have been living in the US for decades, but my daughter wrote to me to say that she did not sleep the night she heard because she was crying. My grandchildren, like all young people, reacted quite calmly.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23431210-600-up-and-atom-breaking-the-periodic-table/
