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Barium was discovered by Sir Humphrey Davy at 1808 in England. Origin of name: from the Greek word barys meaning heavy Baryta (barium oxide, BaO) was distinguished from lime (calcium oxide, CaO) by Scheele in 1774.
Einsteinium was identified by Ghiorso and others (Berkeley, California, USA) in 1952 in radioactive debris from the first large thermonuclear bomb explosion, which took place in the Pacific in November 1952. In 1961, a sufficient amount of einsteinium was produced to permit separation of a macroscopic amount of 253Es.