| Element 109 is named meitnerium, for Lise Meitner, who was the first to realize that uranium undergoes nuclear fission. |
| Less than 10 atoms of meitnerium have ever been made, and it will probably never be isolated in observable quantities. |
| Named after Lise Meitner, an Austrian physicist who was the first to suggest the notion of spontaneous nuclear fission, meitnerium is the 109th element of the periodic table. |
| Elements 107 through 109 will bear the names bohrium, hahnium, and meitnerium, respectively. |
| She is only the second woman to have an element, meitnerium, named after her. Not everyone was satisfied this time round. |
| Meitnerium does not occur naturally, and due to its radioactivity and instability, this element has no industrial applications. |
