Gregory R. Choppin, was an American nuclear chemist and co-discoverer of the element Mendelevium, atomic number 101, another in the discovery group was Glenn Theodore Seaborg, was an American chemist whose involvement in the synthesis, discovery and investigation of ten transuranium elements, earned him a share of which years Nobel Prize in Chemistry?
Gregory Robert Choppin:  The element was named in honor of Dmitri Mendeleev.
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