how long ago was it that a scientist discovered a new element

Question: how long ago was it that a scientist discovered a new element
- Keywords:
  element,
  periodic table
Asked by nrtyx to Alex, Amy, Andy, Georgia, Ollie on 17 Jun 2011.
- Amy Reeve answered on 17 Jun 2011:
  
  Hi
  
  5 new elements have been added to the periodic table since 2000, some of them were only discovered a couple of years ago 🙂 they have insane names though!!
- Ollie Russell answered on 17 Jun 2011:
  
  Hi,
  
  I saw this on the interent a couple of days ago…http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13699575
- Andy MacLeod answered on 17 Jun 2011:
  
  You could argue that the most recent elements added to the periodic table were “created” rather than “discovered”. They’re too unstable to exist in nature, and are only seen for fractions of a second in nuclear reactions.
  
  The last element to be “discovered” in this sense was Francium in 1939.

Question: how long ago was it that a scientist discovered a new element