Other element names connected with people (real or mythological) have been proposed but failed to gain official international recognition.
[4][5] George Gamow, Lev Landau, and Vitalii Goldanski [ru] (who was alive at the time) were suggested for consideration for honoring with elements during the Transfermium Wars, but were not actually proposed.
Helium, titanium, selenium, palladium, promethium, cerium, europium, tantalum, mercury, thorium, uranium, neptunium and plutonium are all given names connected to mythological characters.
[6][7] Its discoverer William Ramsay intended this name to be an indication of the qualities of this element in analogy to the generic group of people.
Gallium was discovered by French scientist Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, who named it in honor of France ("Gallia" in Latin); allegations were later made that he had also named it for himself, as "gallus" is Latin for "le coq", but he denied that this had been his intention.