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 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