Devolution is the. a. passing of authority from the national government to the state and local levels. b. expansion of national authority that began in the 1930s. c. contraction of state authority and the expansion of local government authority.
Hello, There you go. The French chemist Paul-Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran (1838â1912), who discovered it in 1875. Gallium (Latin Gallia meaning Gaul; also gallus, meaning rooster) was discovered spectroscopically by Lecoq de Boisbaudran in 1875 by its characteristic spectrum (two violet lines) in an examination of a zinc blende from the Pyrenees.
1 gallium (Ga, 31) â both named after Gallia (Latin for France) and its discoverer, Lecoq de Boisbaudran (le coq, the French word for 'rooster' translates to gallus in Latin). 2  hahnium (105) â Otto Hahn (Dubnium, named for Dubna in Russia, is the IUPAC-accepted name for element 105). 3  lawrencium (Lr, 103) â Ernest Lawrence. samarium (Sm, 62) - The first element named in honor of a person. 2  Samarium is named for its ore, samarskite, which in turn is named for V.E. 3  Samarsky-Bukjovets, the Russian engineer who allowed researchers access to him mineral samples.