Page "Flerovium" Paragraph 12

The discovery of ununquadium was recognized by JWG of IUPAC on 1 June 2011, along with that of ununhexium.

According to the vice-director of JINR, the Dubna team chose to name element 114 flerovium ( symbol Fl ), after the founder of the Russian institute, Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions, the Soviet physicist Georgy Flyorov ( also spelled Flerov ).

However, IUPAC officially named flerovium after the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions, not after Flerov himself.

Flerov is known for writing to Stalin in April 1942 and pointing out the conspicuous silence in scientific journals within the field of nuclear fission in the United States, Great Britain, and Germany.

Flyorov deduced that this research must have become classified information in those countries.

Flyorov's work and urgings led to the eventual development of the USSR's own atomic bomb project.