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Seaborg in front of the Periodic Table in 1995, pointing to the entry for seaborgium (four years before his death). Seaborg was the only person who was still alive when an element was named after him. (Fermi was told shortly before his death in 1954 that his name was considered for element 100, but he did not see the day when "fermium" was officially recognized as a name in 1955.) Courtesy, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.