Under IUPAC rules, the team were not allowed to name the element after a living person.
Last summer, the discovery of elements 114 and 116 was confirmed by IUPAC, and they should be the next to have confirmed names.
"After IUPAC officially recognised our discovery, we agreed on proposing the name (because) we would like to honour an outstanding scientist, " said Professor Hofmann.
It gave UNESCO and IUPAC responsibility for organizing the Year.
The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) will officially endorse the new element's name in six months' time in order to give the scientific community "time to discuss the suggestion".
The launch conference, which will be opened by the Director-General and Nicole Moreau, President of IUPAC, will bring together internationally renowned figures from the world of chemistry, including several Nobel Prize laureates.
Back in June, as you may recall, Russia's Joint Institute for Nuclear Research proposed flerovium and muscovium as names for the two ultraheavy elements, while deferring to the IUPAC for final say on the matter.
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