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 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