Yuri Oganessian
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Russian nuclear physicist
Key facts
- Born
- Yuri Tsolakovich Oganessian , ( 1933-04-14 ) 14 April 1933 (age 93) , 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)
- Fields
- Nuclear physics
- Institutions
- Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Yury
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Armenia
- Place of birth
- Rostov-on-Don
- Occupation
- physicist
- Educated at
- National Research Nuclear University
- Political party
- Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Doctoral advisor
- Georgy Flyorov
- Student of
- Georgy Flyorov
- Field of work
- nuclear physics
- Image
- Yuri Oganessian.jpg
- Residence
- Dubna
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- Commons category
- Yuri Oganessian
- date of birth
- 1933-04-14
- name in native language
- Ю́рий Цола́кович Оганеся́н
- influenced by
- Georgy Flyorov
- ethnic group
- Armenians
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Encyclopedic overview
Yuri Tsolakovich Oganessian (born 14 April 1933) is a Russian and Armenian 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, named for Glenn T. Seaborg).
Personal life
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