Fun Fact: The Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions (part of the JINR) in Dubna, Russia, was founded by Georgy Flerov in the late 1950s and is now at the forefront of the creation of new elements. Discovered in the 1960s, element 105 was officially named dubnium in 1996 when the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) settled a bitter, decades-long dispute between teams of scientists at Dubna and at Lawrence Berkeley.