Yuri Oganessian
| Yuri Oganessian | |
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Yuri Oganessian in 2011 | |
| Born |
14 April 1933 Rostov-on-Don, Soviet Union (now Russia) |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Fields | Nuclear physics |
| Institutions | Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions |
| Alma mater | Moscow Engineering Physics Institute |
| Known for | Co-discoverer of the heaviest elements in the periodic table; element oganesson named after him |
Yuri Tsolakovich Oganessian (Russian: Ю́рий Цола́кович Оганеся́н, Armenian: Յուրի Ցոլակի Հովհաննիսյան; born 14 April 1933) is a Russian nuclear physicist of Armenian descent.[1] Oganessian is considered the world's leading researcher in superheavy elements.[2] He and his team discovered the heaviest elements in the periodic table.[3][4]
Career
At age 28, he joined the group of Georgy Flyorov (Flerov) at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna.[2]
Oganessian is the scientific leader of the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions (FLNR).[5] He invented cold fusion in one-atom-at-a-time nucleosynthesis (not related to the similarly-named pseudoscientific claims) around 1970 and pioneered hot fusion in the late 1990s.[2] In 2009, scientists in the United States confirmed Oganessian's team's discovery of flerovium over a decade before.[6] He is a researcher in islands of stability. He continues to search olivine in pallasites hoping to find superheavy elements (or their fission tracks) in nature.[2]
In November 2016, IUPAC announced that element 118 would be named oganesson to honor Oganessian.[7][8][9] Prior to this announcement, a dozen elements had been named after people,[10] but of those, only seaborgium was likewise named while the person (Glenn Seaborg) was alive.
References
- ↑ "New Element In Periodic Table To Be Named After Armenian Physicist". Asbarez. 9 June 2016.
- 1 2 3 4 Chapman, Kit (November 30, 2016). "What it takes to make a new element". Chemistry World. Royal Society of Chemistry. Retrieved December 3, 2016.
- ↑ "EPS introduces new Lise Meitner prize". CERN Courier. IOP Publishing. April 2, 2001.
- ↑ "Yuri Tsolakovich Oganessian". flerovlab.jinr.ru. Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions. Retrieved December 7, 2016.
- ↑ "FLNR Directorate". Retrieved October 16, 2013.
- ↑ "Element 114 confirmed". RSC.org. Royal Society of Chemistry. 30 September 2009. Retrieved 19 November 2011.
- ↑ "Periodic Table of Elements". IUPAC. 2016-11-28.
- ↑ "IUAPC announces the names of the elements 113-115-117-118". IUPAC. 2016-11-30.
- ↑ "Names proposed for new chemical elements". BBC News. 8 June 2016.
- ↑ 12 other elements named in honor of people: curium, einsteinium, fermium, mendelevium, nobelium, lawrencium, rutherfordium, seaborgium, bohrium, meitnerium, roentgenium, copernicium; five more were named for places or things that had been named after people: samarium, gadolinium, berkelium, flerovium, livermorium)