People with Elements

Guess people who were good enough to be immortalized on the periodic table!
Hahnium can't happen anymore since the proposal failed once. A shame. Why does IUPAC get to make such rules?
4 are not named for them but others with their name.
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Element
Symbol
Person
Samarium
Sm
Vasili Samarsky-Bykhovets
Gadolinium
Gd
Johan Gadolin
Americium
Am
Amerigo Vespucci
Curium
Cm
Marie Curie
Pierre Curie
Berkelium
Bk
George Berkeley
Einsteinium
Es
Albert Einstein
Fermium
Fm
Enrico Fermi
Mendelevium
Md
Dmitri Mendeleev
Nobelium
No
Alfred Nobel
Lawrencium
Lr
Ernest Lawrence
Rutherfordium
Rf
Ernest Rutherford
Seaborgium
Sg
Glenn T. Seaborg
Bohrium
Bh
Niels Bohr
Meitnerium
Mt
Lise Meitner
Roentgenium
Rg
Wilhelm Röntgen
Copernicium
Cn
Nicolaus Copernicus
Flerovium
Fl
Georgy Flyorov
Livermorium
Lv
Robert Livermore
Oganesson
Og
Yuri Oganessian
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Level 88
Feb 9, 2023
If they're "not named for them but others with their name", why isn't the correct answer those others?
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Level 63
Feb 9, 2023
As in, those others are national laboratories or the continents of the Americas, which are named for them. Indirectly named for them.