masurium

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Named after Masuria by Walter Noddack, whose family was from that area, when he reported its discovery in 1925.

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Then it became apparent that there was no valid evidence for the claimed existence of stable element 43, called masurium by its apparently deluded discoverer, nor for element 61, called illinium.

Nobel Prize in Physics 1939 - Presentation Speech 1940
From the chemical evidence, the two short periods (10 sec. and 40 sec.) so far ascribed to 239U might be masurium isotopes (Z = 43) decaying through ruthenium, rhodium, palladium and silver into cadmium.

Disintegration of Uranium by Neutrons~ a New Type of Nuclear Reaction (historical) Lise Meitner 1939