 Discovery Information
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| Who: Physicists at the Heavy Ion Research Laboratory |
| When: 1982 |
| Where: Darmstadt, West Germany |
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| Name Origin
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| Named after Lise Meitner, a Swedish physicist who helped discover protactinium and first split the nucleus of uranium, creating what her team dubbed "fission".
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| Sources
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| First synthetically produced by bombarding Bi209 with accelerated nuclei of Fe58.
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| Uses
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| None. |
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| Notes
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| In August of 1997 the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry announced the official naming of this element as Meitnerium.
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| Element 109 was previously known as Unnilennium; from the latin for "one zero nine". |
