Forest green is a representation of the average color of the leaves of the trees of a temperate zone deciduous forest.
Elements named after scientists: 1  Bohrium: Niels Bohr, one of the founders of quantum theory. 2  Curium: Marie and Pierre Curie, the co-discoverers of radioactivity. 3  Einsteinium: Albert Einstein. 4  Fermium: Enrico Fermi, the inventor of the first nuclear reactor. 5  Lawrencium: Ernest O. Lawrence, inventor of the cyclotron.
Welcome to the element boron (B). It's the big number five on the periodic table of elements. Society has used boron for thousands of years, but it wasn't isolated and named until 1808. Sir Humphry Davy, Guy Lussac and another scientist named Theonard gave boron its name. You may have heard of borax. Boron is in those cleaning compounds.