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Yuri Oganessian

1933 - Today

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Yuri Tsolakovich Oganessian (born 14 April 1933) is an Armenian and Russian nuclear physicist who is best known as a researcher of superheavy chemical elements. He has led the discovery of multiple elements of the periodic table. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yuri Oganessian has received more than 535,851 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Yuri Oganessian is the 290th most popular physicist (up from 296th in 2019), the 400th most popular biography from Russia (up from 457th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Russian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Yuri Oganessian ranks 290 out of 851. Before him are Walter Kohn, Anthony James Leggett, Steven Chu, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, Christoph Scheiner, and Ettore Majorana. After him are Anna Mani, Friedrich Hund, Anne L'Huillier, Nevill Francis Mott, Pascual Jordan, and Qian Xuesen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Yuri Oganessian ranks 78. Before him are Sandra Milo, Cees Nooteboom, Danny Aiello, Fouad Mebazaa, Jean-Claude Brialy, and Larry King. After him are Jehan Sadat, Teresa Berganza, Piero Manzoni, Sylva Koscina, Henri, Count of Paris, and Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Yuri Oganessian ranks 400 out of 3,761. Before him are Anton Arensky (1861), Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna of Russia (1882), Jani Beg (1300), Adelina Sotnikova (1996), Vasili Kuznetsov (1901), and Fyodor Ushakov (1745). After him are Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia (1783), Mordechai Spiegler (1944), Galina Ulanova (1910), Bulat Okudzhava (1924), Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (1819), and Léon Theremin (1896).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Russia

Among physicists born in Russia, Yuri Oganessian ranks 15. Before him are Igor Tamm (1895), Nikolay Basov (1922), Ilya Frank (1908), Pyotr Kapitsa (1894), Vitaly Ginzburg (1916), and Alexey Ekimov (1945). After him are Andre Geim (1958), Vladimir Shukhov (1853), Georgy Flyorov (1913), Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov (1891), Yulii Khariton (1904), and Anatoli Bugorski (1942).

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