Named in honor of Joseph Remillieux (1940– ), professor at the Institut de Physique Nucléaire de l’Université de Lyon and vice-president of that university. His research interest is atomic collision processes in solids. (M 24918) _ _.
Discovered on 24-9-1960 in Palomar by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T.