Meitnerium was discovered by Peter Armbruster, Gottfried Münzenber and their co-workers at the Heavy Ion Research Laboratory (Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung, GSI) in Darmstadt, Germany in 1982. Named in honour of Lise Meitner (1878-1968), the Austrian physicist. It is synthetic radioactive metal. Meitnerium was produced bybombarding bismuth-209 with iron-58.
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