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Discovery of Copernicium

Germany · Science / Physics. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1996

Sigurd Hofmann1996

Darmstadt · Science / Physics

Leads experiments producing element 112, later named copernicium, and provides evidence for another superheavy element.

Names involved

Sigurd Hofmann

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