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The team at periodicvideos has created a TED-Ed Lesson for every element of the periodic table. Lawrencium was one of the topics discussed on the professor's London road trip.


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In 1963, the symbol for lawrencium (Lw) was changed to Lr in order to comply with the new IUPAC naming rules for elements.
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We discovered that lawrencium is named after Ernest Lawrence, who in 1929 invented the cyclotron.
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