Flerovium was first made in Dubna, Russia in 1998. The scientists from the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California led by Yuri Oganessian and Ken Moody jointly conducted studies on this element and prepared it many times. Thus The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) announced its discovery in June 2011. The element gets its name in honour of Georgy Flerov, a Russian nuclear physicist.
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