Otto Hahn in an obituary: Hahn's death did not stop his public acclamation. Proposals were made at different times, first in 1971 by American chemists, that the newly synthesized element no. 105 should be named hahnium in Hahn's honor; in 1997 the IUPAC (International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry) named it dubnium, after the Russian research center in Dubna (see element naming controversy). Although element 108 was given the name hassium (after Hesse) by its officially recognized German discoverers in 1992, a 1994 IUPAC committee recommended that it be named hahnium (Hn), in spite of the long-standing convention to give the
Otto Hahn nuclear fission – the term that was coined by Frisch, and which subsequently became internationally known. Over the next few months, Frisch and Meitner published two articles discussing and experimentally confirming this hypothesis. In a later appreciation (1963), Meitner wrote: And in an interview on West German television (ARD, 8 March 1959), Meitner said: In the same interview, Fritz Strassmann responded with this clarification: James Chadwick wrote in a preface: In their second publication on nuclear fission ("Die Naturwissenschaften", 10 February 1939), Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann used for the first time the term "Uranspaltung" (uranium fission), and predicted the