Element 112: Copernicum

I recently posted about a new element discovered during nuclear fusion experiments that was looking for a name. The BBC reports on how the element has finally been given a name. Element 112 will be named Copernicum after Copernicus who first discovered how celestial objects orbit each other. Thank god they´ve honored someone worthy and not the name of scientists who seem to like glueing bits together in a laboratory for the sake of it and then claiming new discoveries.