 The American Chemical Society @-@ Chicago Section honored him with the Willard Gibbs Award in 1966 . The element seaborgium was named after Seaborg by Albert Ghiorso , E. Kenneth Hulet , and others , who also credited Seaborg as a co @-@ discoverer . It was named while Seaborg was still alive , which proved controversial . He influenced the naming of so many elements that with the announcement of seaborgium , it was noted in Discover magazine 's review of the year in science that he could receive a letter addressed in chemical elements : seaborgium , lawrencium ( for the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory where he worked ) , berkelium , californium , americium . Seaborgium is the only element to have been officially named after a living person , though the name oganesson has been proposed for element 118 , after Yuri Oganessian . 
