<P> Einsteinium was discovered as a component of the debris of the first hydrogen bomb explosion in 1952 , and named after Albert Einstein . Its most common isotope einsteinium - 253 ( half - life 20.47 days ) is produced artificially from decay of californium - 253 in a few dedicated high - power nuclear reactors with a total yield on the order of one milligram per year . The reactor synthesis is followed by a complex process of separating einsteinium - 253 from other actinides and products of their decay . Other isotopes are synthesized in various laboratories , but at much smaller amounts , by bombarding heavy actinide elements with light ions . Owing to the small amounts of produced einsteinium and the short half - life of its most easily produced isotope , there are currently almost no practical applications for it outside basic scientific research . In particular , einsteinium was used to synthesize , for the first time , 17 atoms of the new element mendelevium in 1955 . </P>
<P> Einsteinium was discovered as a component of the debris of the first hydrogen bomb explosion in 1952 , and named after Albert Einstein . Its most common isotope einsteinium - 253 ( half - life 20.47 days ) is produced artificially from decay of californium - 253 in a few dedicated high - power nuclear reactors with a total yield on the order of one milligram per year . The reactor synthesis is followed by a complex process of separating einsteinium - 253 from other actinides and products of their decay . Other isotopes are synthesized in various laboratories , but at much smaller amounts , by bombarding heavy actinide elements with light ions . Owing to the small amounts of produced einsteinium and the short half - life of its most easily produced isotope , there are currently almost no practical applications for it outside basic scientific research . In particular , einsteinium was used to synthesize , for the first time , 17 atoms of the new element mendelevium in 1955 . </P>
who is the scientist after whom einsteinium is named
who is the scientist after whom einsteinium is named
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein