The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is named after Ernest Lawrence (a Nobel laureate for Physics) and is situated in Livermore, California, in the United States. On the other side of the former Iron Curtain, the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions is part of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, and is located in Dubna, near Moscow. This one is named after Georgy Flerov, a Russian physicist.
They recently became neighbours, being granted possession of numbers 116 and 114 respectively. Explain?
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Two synthetic chemical elements, numbers 116 and 114, have been named Livermorium and Flerovium respectively, in honour of these two institutes where they were discovered. More
here.
Q.406 was on the same topic.