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Yuri Oganessian

1933 - Today

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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). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yuri Oganessian is the 304th most popular physicist (down from 290th in 2019), the 371st most popular biography from Russia (up from 400th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Russian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Yuri Oganessian ranks 304 out of 851Before him are Samuel C. C. Ting, Klaus Hasselmann, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, Walter Kohn, Friedrich Hund, and Henry Way Kendall. After him are Anna Mani, Freeman Dyson, Alain Aspect, Rainer Weiss, Andre Geim, and Otto Robert Frisch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Yuri Oganessian ranks 87Before him are Teresa Berganza, Waichiro Omura, Henryk Górecki, Tomislav Ivić, Franz, Duke of Bavaria, and Yasukazu Tanaka. After him are Oliver Sacks, Edward de Bono, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Walter Kasper, Larry King, and Danny Aiello.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Yuri Oganessian ranks 371 out of 3,761Before him are Dmitri Ivanovsky (1864), Jani Beg (1300), Nikolai Patrushev (1951), Vera Menchik (1906), Onfim (1250), and Svetlana Savitskaya (1948). After him are Zinovy Rozhestvensky (1848), Sergey Nechayev (1847), Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (1786), Nadezhda von Meck (1831), Alexander Ostrovsky (1823), and Nikolai Leskov (1831).

Among PHYSICISTS In Russia

Among physicists born in Russia, Yuri Oganessian ranks 14Before him are Igor Tamm (1895), Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov (1928), Pyotr Kapitsa (1894), Vitaly Ginzburg (1916), Nikolay Basov (1922), and Igor Kurchatov (1903). After him are Andre Geim (1958), Alexey Ekimov (1945), Vladimir Shukhov (1853), Vladimir Fock (1898), Georgy Flyorov (1913), and Boris Podolsky (1896).