Yuri Oganessian

Yuri Tsolakovich Oganessian (born 14 April 1933) is a Russian and Armenian nuclear physicist who is best known as a researcher of superheavy elements.

Personal life Yuri Tsolakovich Oganessian was born in Rostov-on-Don, Russian SFSR, USSR on 14 April 1933 His father, Tsolak, was from Igdir (now in Turkey), with whom he had two daughters. As of 2017, his daughters resided in the U.S.

Oganessian speaks Russian, Armenian,

Career

"A remarkable physicist and experimentalist… his work is characterised by originality, an ability to approach a problem from an unexpected side, and to achieve an ultimate result." — Flyorov on Oganessian, 1990 darmstadtium, roentgenium, and copernicium. The elements discovered using this method are nihonium (2003; also discovered by Riken in Japan using cold fusion), flerovium (1999), moscovium (2003), livermorium (2000), tennessine (2009), and oganesson (2002).

Recognition

Sherry Yennello has called him the "grandfather of superheavy elements". including by Alexander Sergeev, former head of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Oganesson During early 2016, science writers and bloggers speculated that one of the superheavy elements would be named oganessium or oganesson. The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) announced in November 2016 that element 118 would be named oganesson to honor Oganessian. It was first observed in 2002 at JINR, by a joint team of Russian and American scientists. Directed by Oganessian, the team included American scientists of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California. Prior to this announcement, a dozen elements had been named after people, but of those, only seaborgium was likewise named while its namesake (Glenn T. Seaborg) was alive.

Honors and awards In 1990, Oganessian was elected Corresponding Member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences and in 2003 a Full Member (Academician) of the Russian Academy of Sciences. University of Messina (2009), and Yerevan State University (2022).

State awards Order of the Badge of Honour Order of the Red Banner of Labour Lenin Komsomol Prize (1967) USSR State Prize (1975) Order of Honour (2009) State Prize of the Russian Federation (2010) Order of Honor (Armenia) (2016) Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd class (2017) Order of St. Mesrop Mashtots (Armenia, 2019)

Professional awards Kurchatov Medal (1989) Lise Meitner Prize of the European Physical Society (2000) Lomonosov Gold Medal (2018) "for fundamental research in the fields of interaction of complex nuclei and experimental evidence of existence of an 'island of stability' for superheavy elements" Demidov Prize (2019) UNESCO-Russia Mendeleev International Prize in the Basic Sciences (2021)

Recognition in Armenia Oganessian was granted Armenian citizenship in July 2018 by Premier Nikol Pashinyan. Oganessian is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation for Armenian Science and Technology (FAST). He is also the chairman of the international scientific board of the Alikhanian National Science Laboratory (Yerevan Physics Institute). In 2017 HayPost issued a postage stamp dedicated to Oganessian. In 2022 the Central Bank of Armenia issued a silver commemorative coin dedicated to Oganessian and the element oganesson (Og). In April 2022 he was named honorary professor of Yerevan State University.

Selected publications