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Hahn was shot in the back in October 1951 by a disgruntled inventor who wished to highlight the neglect of his ideas by mainstream scientists. Hahn was injured in a motor vehicle accident in 1952, and had a minor heart attack the following year. In 1962, he published a book, ''Vom Radiothor zur Uranspaltung'' (''From the radiothor to Uranium fission''). It was released in English in 1966 with the title ''Otto Hahn: A Scientific Autobiography'', with an introduction by Glenn Seaborg. The success of this book may have prompted him to write another, fuller autobiography, ''Otto Hahn. Mein Leben'', but before it could be published, he fractured one of the vertebrae in his neck while getting out of a car. He gradually became weaker and died in Göttingen on 28 July 1968. His wife Edith survived him by only a fortnight.{{sfn|Spence|1970|pp=300–301}} He was buried in the [[Stadtfriedhof (Göttingen)|Stadtfriedhof]] in Göttingen.<ref>{{cite web |title=Grab von Otto Hahn aus Göttingen |website=www.friedhofguide.de |url=https://www.friedhofguide.de/grab/deutschland/G%C3%B6ttingen/Stadtfriedhof+G%C3%B6ttingen/Otto+Hahn+08.03.1879_28.07.1968 |access-date=28 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200629233454/https://www.friedhofguide.de/grab/deutschland/G%C3%B6ttingen/Stadtfriedhof+G%C3%B6ttingen/Otto+Hahn+08.03.1879_28.07.1968 |archive-date=29 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Nobelpreisträger auf dem Stadtfriedhof |trans-title=Nobel Prize winners at the City Cemetery |publisher=City of Göttingen |lang=de |url=http://www.goettingen.de/pics/medien/1_1229606299/Nobel-Rondell.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924022846/http://www.goettingen.de/pics/medien/1_1229606299/Nobel-Rondell.pdf |archive-date=24 September 2015 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all}}</ref>
The day after his death, the Max Planck Society published the following obituary notice:
{{blockquote|On 28 July, in his 90th year, our Honorary President Otto Hahn passed away. His name will be recorded in the history of humanity as [[atomic age|the founder of the atomic age]]. In him Germany and the world have lost a scholar who was distinguished in equal measure by his integrity and personal humility. The Max Planck Society mourns its founder, who continued the tasks and traditions of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society after the war, and mourns also a good and much loved human being, who will live in the memories of all who had the chance to meet him. His work will continue. We remember him with deep gratitude and admiration.<ref>Quoted in {{cite journal |first1=Markos |last1=Sgantzos |first2=George |last2=Kyrgias |first3=Panagiotis |last3=Georgoulias |first4=Marianna |last4=Karamanou |first5=Gregory |last5=Tsoucalas |first6=George |last6=Androutsos |title=Otto Hahn (
Fritz Strassmann wrote:
{{blockquote|The number of those who had been able to be near Otto Hahn is small. His behaviour was completely natural for him, but for the next generations he will serve as a model, regardless of whether one admires in the attitude of Otto Hahn his humane and scientific sense of responsibility or his personal courage.<ref>{{cite news |last=Strassmann |first=Fritz |date=29 July 1968 |title=Zum Tode von Otto Hahn |trans-title=On the Death of Otto Hahn |lang=de |newspaper=Die Welt |location=Hamburg}}</ref>}}
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Objects named after Hahn include:
* [[Otto Hahn (ship)|NS ''Otto Hahn'']], the only European nuclear-powered civilian ship (1964);<ref>{{cite web |title=Schornstein des Kernernergie Forschungsschiffes ''Otto Hahn'' |publisher=Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum |lang=de |url=https://www.dsm.museum/museum/museumshafen/schornstein-des-kernernergie-forschungsschiffes-otto-hahn |access-date=8 October 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title= NS ''Otto Hahn''
* a [[Hahn (crater)|crater on the Moon]] (shared with his namesake [[Friedrich von Hahn]]);<ref>{{cite web |title=Moon
* and the asteroid ''[[19126 Ottohahn]]'';<ref>{{cite web |title=IAU Minor Planet Center |website=minorplanetcenter.net |url=https://minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=19126 |access-date=28 June 2020}}</ref>
* the [[Otto Hahn Prize]] of both the German Chemical and Physical Societies and the city of Frankfurt/Main;<ref>{{cite web |title=GDCh-Preise |publisher= Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker |url=https://www.gdch.de/gdch/preise-und-auszeichnungen/gdch-preise.html |access-date=28 June 2020}}</ref>
* the [[Otto Hahn Medal]]
* and the [[Otto Hahn Peace Medal]] in Gold of the United Nations Association of Germany (DGVN) in Berlin (1988).<ref>{{cite web |title=Verleihung der Otto-Hahn-Friedensmedaille |trans-title=Award of the Otto Hahn Peace Medal |lang=de |publisher=Deutsche Gesellschaft für die Vereinten Nationen e.V. |url=https://dgvn.de/aktivitaeten/einzelansicht/verleihung-der-otto-hahn-friedensmedaille/ |access-date=28 June 2020 |archive-date=2 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200702000534/https://dgvn.de/aktivitaeten/einzelansicht/verleihung-der-otto-hahn-friedensmedaille/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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