Yuri Oganessian

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Tsolakovich and the family name is Oganessian.
Yuri Oganessian
Юрий Оганесян
Oganessian in 2016
Born (1933-04-14) 14 April 1933 (age 91)
Rostov-on-Don, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
CitizenshipSoviet Union (1933-1991)
Russia (1991-present)
Armenia (2018-present)[2][3]
Alma materMoscow Engineering Physics Institute
Known forCo-discoverer of the heaviest elements in the periodic table; element oganesson named after him
AwardsLomonosov Gold Medal (2017)
Demidov Prize (2019)
Scientific career
FieldsNuclear physics[1]
InstitutionsFlerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research

Yuri Tsolakovich Oganessian (Russian: Юрий Цолакович Оганесян [ˈjʉrʲɪj t͡sɐˈlakəvʲɪt͡ɕ ɐgənʲɪˈsʲan];[a] born 14 April 1933) is a Soviet and Russian nuclear physicist who is best known as a researcher of superheavy chemical elements.[7] He has led the discovery of multiple elements of the periodic table.[8][9] 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.[10] The heaviest element known of the periodic table, oganesson, is named after him, only the second time that an element was named after a living person (the other being seaborgium).[7]

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  2. ^ "President Armen Sarkissian receive Academician Yuri Oganessian". Office to the President of the Republic of Armenia. 12 July 2018. President Sarkissian said that on July 11 he signed the decree to granting Armenian citizenship to Yuri Oganessian.
  3. ^ "Премьер Армении предоставил гражданство российскому ученому Юрию Оганесяну" (in Russian). TASS. 10 July 2018. Archived from the original on 21 December 2018.
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  6. ^ Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia Volume 6 (in Armenian). Yerevan. 1980. p. 572. ՀՈՎՀԱՆՆԻՍՅԱՆ Յուրի Ցոլակի (ծն. 14.4.1933, Դոնի Ռոստով), հայ սովետական ֆիզիկոս{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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  8. ^ "EPS introduces new Lise Meitner prize". CERN Courier. IOP Publishing. 2 April 2001. Archived from the original on 15 July 2007.
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