Curium, element 96, is named after Pierre and Marie Curie, by analogy with its lanthanide congener, gadolinium (named after the Finnish chemist, J. Gadolin). Curium is not a naturally occurring terrestrial element.
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Lumetta, G. J., Thompson, M. C., Penneman, R. A., & Eller, P. G. (2010). Curium. In The Chemistry of the Actinide and Transactinide Elements (pp. 1397–1443). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0211-0_9
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