Rome, January 15 - One of the four recently discovered chemical elements should be dedicated to the Italian chemist, Holocaust survivor and author Primo Levi, British science journalist Philip Ball has said. Writing in the journal Nature, Philip Ball called for an element to be named 'Levium' in honour of Levi, whose most famous works include Auschwitz memoir If This Is a Man and The Periodic Table, a collection of short stories. At the end of December, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry confirmed the discovery of four new chemical elements, all of which had been created in laboratories. Ball explained that one of the four should be dedicated to Levi because "The Periodic Table remains the best book ever written on chemistry".