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 Badash (from the University of California at Santa Barbara) wrote: According to his captors, "With the help of considerable alcoholic stimulant he was calmed down". Later he told his fellow captives, "I must honestly say that I would have sabotaged the war if I had been in a position to do so." On January 3, 1946, the group was allowed to return to Germany, and Hahn, Heisenberg, and von Laue were brought to the city of Göttingen, which was controlled by the British occupation authorities. On 15 November 1945 the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that Hahn had been