An international committee named element 105 as dubnium, not hahnium, as it had previously been informally called. And element 109 as meitnerium. In 1944, Otto Hahn had won the Nobel Prize in Physics for experiments conducted in Germany that proved beyond any doubt that uranium fission under neutron bombardment, producing radioactive barium. In reality, the experiments had been conducted and designed by Lise Meitner, who agreed not to be named in the article, but published another under her name, which explained the theoretical basis of the experiment. Hahn, not Meitner, would win the Nobel Prize in 1944, because the majority of the committee in Stockholm were pro-German. Meitner would have (more than) a posthumous revenge, when a new element (109) was named in her name. Due to the complex rules of the naming committee, no other element can be called Hahnium, as it has already been proposed and rejected, in favor of Dubnium.
