(origin is Latin "Hassias" meaning "Hess", the German state.)Discovered by Peter Armbruster, Gottfried Munzenber and co-workers at GSI in Darmstadt,Germany in 1984.
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'The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.'