elements can only be named after dead people, according to rules. Would you rather have the million francs of the nobel prize and an element named after you? I think i take the money and the are the career opportunities that a nobele prize would afford. The prionic table is immortality. But if i have a career where i i've won a noBele prize and i also have the million Swiss Francs, this is something i's something that means something to me.