The city of Darmstadt, the scientist Wilhelm Roentgen, and the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus are three recent (and official) additions to a list that numbers just over a hundred. This decision was taken at an institute in Darmstadt (which is in Germany).
Other members of this list include such scientists as Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, and Madame Curie, and places such as California, Copenhagen, and Germany.
What list?
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The list of names of chemical elements. The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), the body that hands out official names for elements, has added
Darmstadtium (Ds), Roentgenium (Rg) and Copernicium (Cn) to the list (elements 110 to 112).