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americium
Americium is a synthetic chemical element; it has symbol Am and atomic number 95. It is radioactive and a transuranic member of the actinide series in the periodic table, located under the lanthanide element europium and was thus named after the Americas by analogy.
Glenn T. Seaborg
American chemist (1912–1999)
smoke detector
device that detects smoke, typically as an indicator of fire

Albert Ghiorso
American nuclear scientist
isotope of americium
Artificial nuclides with atomic number of 95 but with different mass numbers
Ralph Arthur James
American chemist (1920-1973)