Yuri Oganessian
Yuri Oganessian | |
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| Юрий Оганесян | |
Oganessian in 2016 | |
| Born | Yuri Tsolakovich Oganessian 14 April 1933 Rostov-on-Don, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Citizenship | Soviet Union (1933–1991) Russia (1991–present) Armenia (2018–present) |
| Alma mater | Moscow Engineering Physics Institute |
| Known for | Co-discoverer of the heaviest elements in the periodic table; element oganesson named after him |
| Awards | Lomonosov Gold Medal (2017) Demidov Prize (2019) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Nuclear physics |
| Institutions | Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research |
Yuri Tsolakovich Oganessian (born 14 April 1933) is an Armenian and Russian nuclear physicist who is best known as a researcher of superheavy elements. He has led the discovery of multiple chemical elements. He succeeded Georgy Flyorov as director of the Flyorov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in 1989 and is now its scientific director. The heaviest known element, oganesson, is named after him, only the second time that an element was named after a living person (the other is seaborgium).