| Due to its extremely short half-life, there's no reason for considering the effects of rutherfordium in the environment. |
| The originally proposed names of these elements by IUPAC were, in order, dubnium, joliotium, rutherfordium, bohrium, hahnium, and meiterium. |
| When they created it themselves, they named it rutherfordium, after the New Zealander who had first split the atom. Since then, nobody has been able to agree on anything. |
| At this time, there are 15 known isotopes of rutherfordium, all of which are highly unstable and radioactive. |
| In 1997, the IUPAC working group concluded that both the JINR and Berkeley groups had some justification for their discovery claims and decided that element 104 would be called rutherfordium. |
| The American team, on the other hand, proposed the name rutherfordium for the new element, in honor of the great British scientist Sir Ernest Rutherford. |
