Proper noun
Dubna
A city in Moscow Oblast, Russia.
Report presented at the 99th Session of the JINR Scientific Council, Dubna, 19–20 January 2006. Source: Internet
In 1992, the IUPAC IUPAP Transfermium Working Group (TWG) reassessed the claims of discovery and concluded that only the Dubna work from 1966 correctly detected and assigned decays to nuclei with atomic number 102 at the time. Source: Internet
This decision was criticized by Berkeley the following year, calling the reopening of the cases of elements 101 to 103 a "futile waste of time", while Dubna agreed with the IUPAC's decision. Source: Internet
Element 103 was first reportedly created in 1961 in Berkeley; the Dubna team conducted experiment of their a few years later own and raised their claims. Source: Internet
The American group wrote a scathing response to the findings of the TWG, stating that they had given too much emphasis on the results from the Dubna group. Source: Internet
The first complete and incontrovertible report of its detection only came in 1966 from the Joint Institute of Nuclear Research at Dubna (then in the Soviet Union). citation (Note: for Part I see Pure Appl. Source: Internet