Seaborgium was first created and identified in 1974 by a team of researchers at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). The team was led by Albert Ghiorso and physicist Kenneth Hulet and other colleagues. The element was later confirmed in 1993, and it was named seaborgium in honor of Glenn T. Seaborg, a Nobel Prize-winning American nuclear chemist who was instrumental in the discovery of several transuranium elements and contributed greatly to the chemistry of heavy elements.
