Yuri Oganessian

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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, and the only one who is still alive (the other is seaborgium, named for Glenn T. Seaborg, who died in 1999).

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