About Yuri Oganessian
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 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. During the 1970s, Oganessian invented the "cold fusion" method, a technique to produce transactinide elements (superheavy elements) Though they share a name, this process is unrelated to the unproven energy-producing process also named cold fusion.
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