Editing Transfermium Wars (section)

== Objections to the IUPAC 94 proposal ==
This solution drew objections from the [[American Chemical Society]] (ACS) on the grounds that the right of the American group to propose the name for element 106 was not in question, and that group should have the right to name the element. Indeed, [[IUPAC]] decided that the credit for the discovery of element 106 should be awarded to Berkeley.

Along the same lines, the German group protested against naming element 108 by the American suggestion "hahnium", mentioning the long-standing convention that an element is named by its discoverers.<ref>http://www.gsi.de/documents/DOC-2003-Jun-35-5.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120309051536/http://www.gsi.de/documents/DOC-2003-Jun-35-5.pdf |date=2012-03-09 }} (in German).</ref>
 
In addition, given that many American books had already used rutherfordium and hahnium for 104 and 105, the ACS objected to those names being used for other elements.

In 1995, IUPAC abandoned the controversial rule and established a committee of national representatives aimed at finding a compromise. They suggested ''seaborgium'' for element 106 in exchange for the removal of all the other American proposals, except for the established name ''lawrencium'' for element 103. The equally entrenched name ''nobelium'' for element 102 was replaced by ''flerovium'' after [[Georgy Flyorov]], following the recognition by the 1993 report that that element had been first synthesized in Dubna. This was rejected by American scientists and the decision was retracted.<ref name="AlbertC2000">{{cite book|last1=Hoffman|first1=D. C.|last2=Ghiorso |first2=A.|author-link2=Albert Ghiorso|last3=Seaborg|first3=G. T.|author-link3=Glenn T. Seaborg|title=The Transuranium People: The Inside Story|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yP63CgAAQBAJ|year=2000|publisher=World Scientific|isbn=978-1-78326-244-1|pages=389–394}}</ref> The name ''flerovium'' was later used for [[element 114]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Loss |first1=R. D. |last2=Corish |first2=J. |date=2012 |title=Names and symbols of the elements with atomic numbers 114 and 116 (IUPAC Recommendations 2012) |url=https://www.iupac.org/publications/pac/pdf/2012/pdf/8407x1669.pdf |journal=Pure and Applied Chemistry |volume=84 |issue=7 |pages=1669–72 |doi=10.1351/PAC-REC-11-12-03 |s2cid=96830750 |access-date=21 April 2018}}</ref>