Darmstadtium the JINR showed signs of Ds being produced from Pu and S. Each team proposed its own name for element 110: the American team proposed "hahnium" after Otto Hahn in an attempt to resolve the situation on element 105 (which they had long been suggesting this name for), the Russian team proposed "becquerelium" after Henri Becquerel, and the German team proposed "darmstadtium" after Darmstadt, the location of their institute. The IUPAC/IUPAP Joint Working Party (JWP) recognised the GSI team as discoverers in their 2001 report, giving them the right to suggest a name for the element. Using Mendeleev's nomenclature for
Otto Hahn Peace Medal the beginning of the "Atomic age", which from the scientific, political, economic, social and philosophical point of view has fundamentally changed the world. Source: DGVN (in German) ""The award of the Otto Hahn Peace Medal has given me great joy and satisfaction, particularly because it is linked with the name of this great man, a great scientist, and a modest human being who was ready to help other people at all times, and who has always been a role model for me."" (Prof. Dr. h.c. Simon Wiesenthal, Vienna, 1991). ""Ever since my early youth, I have admired Otto Hahn as