Z = 116, livermorium, Lv. A “super heavyweight” that was born from international collaboration

Abstract

Livermorium is an artificial element that was synthesized for the first time on July 19, 2000 at the facilities of the Central Nuclear Research Institute in Dubna, Russia,^[3] by the team formed by researchers from the Russian center, led by Yuri Oganesian and Vladimir Utionkov, and those at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the US.