The name of the element having atomic number 100, was adopted in the honour of :
A
Alfred Nobel
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B
Enrico Fermi
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C
Dmitri Mendeleev
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D
Albert Einstein
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Solution
The correct option is B Enrico Fermi Fermium, atomic number 100, was discovered in the debris of the first hydrogen bomb explosion in 1952, and named after Enrico Fermi, one of the pioneers of nuclear physics.