 Discovery Information
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| Who: Peter Armbruster, Gottfried Münzenberg, et al.
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| When: 1984 |
| Where: GSI, Darmstadt, Germany
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| Name Origin
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| Latin "Hassias" meaning "Hess", the German state. |
| "Hassium" in different languages. |
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| Sources
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| Synthetically prepared element. The first atoms were made by fusing 208Pb with 58Fe.
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| Uses
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| None. |
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| History
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| Hassium was first synthesized in 1984 by a German research team led by Peter Armbruster and Gottfried Münzenberg at the Institute for Heavy Ion Research (Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung) in Darmstadt. The name hassium was proposed
by them, derived from the Latin name for the German state of Hesse where the institute is located.
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| There was an element naming controversy as to what the elements from 101 to 109 were to be called; thus IUPAC adopted unniloctium
as a temporary element name for this element. In 1994 a committee of IUPAC recommended that element 108 be named hahnium.
The name hassium was adopted internationally in 1997.
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| Notes
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| In August of 1997 the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry announced the official naming of this element as Hassium. |
| Element 108 was previously known as Unniloctium; from the latin for "one zero eight". |
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