a radioactive transuranic element synthesized by bombarding einsteinium with alpha particles (Md is the current symbol for mendelevium but Mv was formerly the symbol)
A transuranic chemical element (symbol Md, formerly Mv) with atomic number 101.
Mendelevium comes from the name of Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev, who created an early version of the periodic table, combined with the suffix -ium used for metals. It was proposed by a team at the University of California, Berkeley, to honor his contributions to chemistry.