In 1994, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, the commission in charge of naming elements, approved element 109 as meitnerium, or Mt. Meitnerium is now part of the periodic table, along with other elements named after famous scientists, such as rutherfordium, seaborgium, bohrium, roentgenium, copernicium, mendelevium, nobelium, lawrencium, fermium, einsteinium, and curium. Meitner, nominated almost fifty times for a Nobel Prize, had finally joined the list of the most important physicists, a place where she has long belonged.
