Lysenkonium, the people's element

Americans discover it later and name it with their own name. Little is changed. Especially since I don't think any of the soviety names for elements stuck.

IIRC, Rutherfordium and Dubnium are compromises between the US and USSR. Dubnium refers to Dubna, the Soviet equivalent of CERN.

Edit to Add: Although those aren't the original names they wanted, so I suppose you're right.
 
IIRC, Rutherfordium and Dubnium are compromises between the US and USSR. Dubnium refers to Dubna, the Soviet equivalent of CERN.

Edit to Add: Although those aren't the original names they wanted, so I suppose you're right.

Yeah, soviety was a typo, I just meant specifically the soviet names.
 
IIRC, Rutherfordium and Dubnium are compromises between the US and USSR. Dubnium refers to Dubna, the Soviet equivalent of CERN.

It's a pretty little town for academic types as well as the site of the research facilities :D

As for Lysenkonium, I think the Soviets themselves might be happy to rename it when it comes to that.
 

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Americans discover it later and name it with their own name. Little is changed. Especially since I don't think any of the soviety names for elements stuck.
That's not how international naming conventions work as far as I know. If Soviets name an element after Lysenko (though why would they name it after a biologist?), then that is the name that everyone uses. You don't see anti-American countries renaming Californium to Kim-Jong-il-ium or Ayatollahium in OTL, do you?
 
That's not how international naming conventions work as far as I know. If Soviets name an element after Lysenko (though why would they name it after a biologist?), then that is the name that everyone uses. You don't see anti-American countries renaming Californium to Kim-Jong-il-ium or Ayatollahium in OTL, do you?

For a while that really was the case

I have textbooks with Nielsborium and Kurchatovium somewhere in storage, btw. And the American books with the opposite.

:p
 
That's not how international naming conventions work as far as I know. If Soviets name an element after Lysenko (though why would they name it after a biologist?), then that is the name that everyone uses. You don't see anti-American countries renaming Californium to Kim-Jong-il-ium or Ayatollahium in OTL, do you?

Actually they did. Elements 104-106 had different names in the USSR and allies than they did in the west. It was a big controversy in chemistry for awhile.
 
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