Darmstadtium team proposed the name "becquerelium" after Henri Becquerel. The American team in 1997 proposed the name "hahnium" after Otto Hahn (previously this name had been used for element 105). The name "darmstadtium" (Ds) was suggested by the GSI team in honor of the city of Darmstadt, where the element was discovered. The GSI team originally also considered naming the element "wixhausium", after the suburb of Darmstadt known as Wixhausen where the element was discovered, but eventually decided on "darmstadtium". The new name was officially recommended by IUPAC on August 16, 2003. Darmstadtium has no stable or naturally occurring isotopes. Several
Otto Hahn the University of Marburg, where for two years he worked as assistant to his doctoral supervisor, Geheimrat Professor Theodor Zincke. His long-time scientific collaborator Nikolaus Riehl claimed that the family had "a Jewish antecedent", but this didn't hinder Hahn's academic career during the Nazi era. According to journalist Bernt Engelmann, Hahn was often thought of as Jewish because of his "Jewish sounding" surname, but he instead asserts that Hahn only had Jewish ancestors on his maternal side of the family despite "Giese" (his mother's maiden name) not being a traditional Jewish surname. Engelmann claimed that this Jewish ancestry was an