Finally a Name for Element

During the discovery time the element name masurium had been established and some generations of chemistry students learned the rigmarole 

In 1946, Segre and Perrier proposed the name technetium with the symbol Tc for the element they had discovered. The fact that technetium was the first element that had been prepared in a technical way lay behind the choice of name, from the Greek technikos (artificial). At a meeting in Amsterdam in September 1949 the International Union of Chemistry changed its name to the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. On the same occasion the old name masurium Ma was officially replaced by the new name technetium Tc for element 43. In 1951J. C. Hackney published a review of the chemical properties of the now established element technetium [28.4]. 

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