The long-standing dispute was resolved in 1997 by an official investigation of the discovery claims by the IUPAC/IUPAP Joint Working Party, when the element was officially named "dubnium" after Dubna, the site of the JINR.
The long-standing dispute was resolved in 1997 by an official investigation of the discovery claims by the IUPAC/IUPAP Joint Working Party, resulting in credit for discovery being officially shared between both teams. The element was officially named "dubnium" after Dubna, the site of the JINR.