Darmstadtium the JINR showed signs of Ds being produced from Pu and S. Each team proposed its own name for element 110: the American team proposed "hahnium" after Otto Hahn in an attempt to resolve the situation on element 105 (which they had long been suggesting this name for), the Russian team proposed "becquerelium" after Henri Becquerel, and the German team proposed "darmstadtium" after Darmstadt, the location of their institute. The IUPAC/IUPAP Joint Working Party (JWP) recognised the GSI team as discoverers in their 2001 report, giving them the right to suggest a name for the element. Using Mendeleev's nomenclature for
Otto Finsch apparently so as to obtain authorship. Some species of parrot bear his name, including the lilac-crowned parrot, "Amazona finschi", and the grey-headed parakeet, "Psittacula finschii". A species of monitor lizard, "Varanus finschi", is named after him, as he collected what would become the holotype for this species. The crater Finsch on the Moon is also named in his honor. Otto Finsch Friedrich Hermann Otto Finsch (8 August 1839 – 31 January 1917, Braunschweig) was a German ethnographer, naturalist and colonial explorer. Finsch was born at Warmbrunn in Silesia to Mortiz Finsch and Mathilde née Leder. His father was in the