 His legacy was cemented with the naming of element 106 as seaborgium in his honor.He is the first of two individuals (the other being Yuri Oganessian) to have had an element named after them during their lifetime (the names einsteinium and fermium were proposed when Einstein and Fermi were alive, but were not approved until after their deaths).The following list of things named after Glenn T. Seaborg supplements his biographical entry