Frederick Soddy is perhaps an obvious omission from the list of radiochemistry pioneers commemorated in the names of elements. We have curium rutherfordium, hahnium, seaborgium and meitnerium, and among physicists, bohrium, einsteinium, roentgenium, and fermium.
However, if you pause for a moment and imagine what the name might sound like:
soddyium
It sounds very like the well known element with atomic number 11.
However, Soddy has been commemorated in the mineralogical world. The bright yellow uranium silicate mineral species soddyite is named after him. The original description of the species by Schoep in 1922 uses the form "soddite", but the spelling "soddyite" is now universally used.
However, if you pause for a moment and imagine what the name might sound like:
soddyium
It sounds very like the well known element with atomic number 11.
However, Soddy has been commemorated in the mineralogical world. The bright yellow uranium silicate mineral species soddyite is named after him. The original description of the species by Schoep in 1922 uses the form "soddite", but the spelling "soddyite" is now universally used.
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| Yellow crystals of soddyite from Shinkolobwe, Zaire. Hunterian museum specimen M11678 |
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