IUPAC said that a Russian-American team of scientists at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California had discovered elements 115, 117 and 118. The organization said a team of scientists from the RIKEN Institute in Japan discovered element 113. The decision means Japan becomes the first Asian country to name an element. Under IUPAC rules, new elements can be named after mythological concepts, minerals, a place or country, or a scientist.
Who did IUPAC credit the discovery of element 113 to?
A group of researchers working in Japan A group of researchers from Japan working in other Asian countries A Russian-American group of researchers in Dubna and California 113 Different research groups around the worl