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Previous discovery attempts
In 1971 a group of researchers led by Prof. Amnon Marinov have claimed to discover Element 112. Their experiment was executed by bombarding a Tungsten target, taken from CERN accelerator, with a beam of high energy protons. They reported to have found tens of nuclei of 112 protons, having a half-life time of approximately 47 days. According to their interpretations, the 112 protons nuclei were created by secondary reactions. During the following decades Marinov and his collaborators pursued their research on isomeric states and published numerous articles to support their claims. Their claims of primacy for discovery of element 112 were not accepted by IUPAC and IUPAP.