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Berkeley Group Calls Element 105 Hahnium

JUL 01, 1970

DOI: 10.1063/1.3022239

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The discovery of element 105 was reported by Albert Ghiorso (University of California, Berkeley) at the Washington APS meeting; he suggested calling it “hahnium” in honor of Otto Hahn, codiscoverer of nuclear fission.

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