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Notice the names given to elements 104 and 105, "kurchatovium" (after the Russian "Father of the Atom Bomb") and "hahnium" (after Otto Hahn, the co-discoverer of fission of heavy nuclei, with Lise Meitner) {LINK: Meitner in Berlin at Frei Universität} and Fritz Strassman). The accepted names today are rutherfordium and dubnium, respectively.