Rutherfordium was first discovered by a team of scientists led by Georgy Flerov at the Russian Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Dubna in 1964 while bombarding plutonium atoms with neon.

Mitch André Garcia considers the disputed discovery of element 104 and takes a look at how the chemistry of this synthetic element is developing. Rutherfordium, the 104th element on the periodic table ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has detected six isotopes, never seen before, of the superheavy elements 104 through 114.

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