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However, speaking exclusively to Chemistry World, JINR lead scientist Yuri Oganessian – the only person alive with an element, oganesson, named after him – confirmed that the war in Ukraine meant ‘the situation is actually not easy in the current turbulent environment’, and that sanctions meant his team ‘cannot cooperate with Oak Ridge and Livermore because JINR is located in Russia’.
Berkeley Lab to lead US hunt for element 120 after breakdown of collaboration with Russia Kit Chapman 2023
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Yuri Oganessian, who leads the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Dubna, Russia, has been involved in the synthesis of several new elements and is the namesake of oganesson.
Heaviest element yet within reach after major breakthrough Katherine Bourzac 2024
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The heaviest element that has been made so far is oganesson, element 118, which was first synthesized in 2002.
Heaviest element yet within reach after major breakthrough Katherine Bourzac 2024
qroqqa commented on the word oganesson
New name for element 118, with symbol Og, formerly temporarily known as ununoctium. It is named for the pioneering physicist Yuri Oganessian. Note that it ends in -on, not -ium, to match the elements above it such as neon.
June 8, 2016
alexz commented on the word oganesson
A lot less bulky than oganessianium that people had proposed since 2011.
June 8, 2016