1. Yuri Tsolakovich Oganessian was born on 14 April 1933 and is an Armenian and Russian nuclear physicist who is best known as a researcher of superheavy chemical elements.
14 Facts About Yuri Oganessian
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Yuri Oganessian has led the discovery of multiple elements of the periodic table.
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Yuri Tsolakovich Oganessian was born in Rostov-on-Don, Russian SFSR, USSR on 14 April 1933 to Armenian parents.
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Yuri Oganessian's father was from Igdir, while his mother was from Armavir in what is Russia's Krasnodar Krai.
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Yuri Oganessian was married to Irina Levonovna, a violinist and a music teacher in Dubna, with whom he had two daughters.
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Yuri Oganessian graduated from the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute in 1956.
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Yuri Oganessian became director of the Flyorov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions at JINR in 1989, after Flyorov retired, and had the job until 1996, when he was named the scientific director of the Flyorov laboratory.
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Yuri Oganessian's process was crucial for the discoveries of elements from 106 to 113.
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Yuri Oganessian is the author of three discoveries, a monograph, 11 inventions, and more than 300 scientific papers.
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Yuri Oganessian has been considered worthy of a Nobel laureate in Chemistry, including by Alexander Sergeev, former head of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
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Yuri Oganessian has honorary degrees from Goethe University Frankfurt, University of Messina, and Yerevan State University.
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Yuri Oganessian was granted Armenian citizenship in July 2018 by Premier Nikol Pashinyan.
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Yuri Oganessian is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation for Armenian Science and Technology.
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Yuri Oganessian is the chairman of the international scientific board of the Alikhanian National Science Laboratory.