Yuri Oganessian, Armenian-Russian nuclear physicist

Yuri Oganessian

Armenian and Russian nuclear physicist (born 1933)

Yuri Tsolakovich Oganessian 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…