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Yuri Oganessian

1933 - Today

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Yuri Tsolakovich Oganessian (Russian: Юрий Цолакович Оганесян [ˈjʉrʲɪj t͡sɐˈlakəvʲɪt͡ɕ ɐgənʲɪˈsʲan]; Armenian: Յուրի Ցոլակովիչ Օգանեսյան, born 14 April 1933) is a Soviet, Armenian and Russian nuclear physicist who is best known as a researcher of superheavy chemical elements. He participated with 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 485,199 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Yuri Oganessian is the 296th most popular physicist (up from 308th in 2019), the 458th most popular biography from Russia (up from 486th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Russian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Yuri Oganessian ranks 296 out of 717. Before him are David Gross, Ernst Chladni, Makoto Kobayashi, Fritjof Capra, Walter Kohn, and William Daniel Phillips. After him are Freeman Dyson, Valentin Ceaușescu, Paul-Jacques Curie, Pierre Louis Dulong, Peter Mansfield, and William Whewell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Yuri Oganessian ranks 85. Before him are Sylva Koscina, Danny Aiello, Richard S. Castellano, Piero Manzoni, Jerzy Kosiński, and Lamine Diack. After him are Nino Vaccarella, Peter Mansfield, David Hamilton, Cees Nooteboom, Teresa Berganza, and Manu Dibango.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Yuri Oganessian ranks 458 out of 3,262. Before him are Andrei Platonov (1899), Simeon Bekbulatovich (1600), Chung Il-kwon (1917), Vasily Surikov (1848), Leonid Kuravlyov (1936), and Nikolay Shvernik (1888). After him are Savielly Tartakower (1887), Aleksandr Kuprin (1870), Ilya Ulyanov (1831), Rasul Gamzatov (1923), Vera Zasulich (1849), and Alexander Afanasyev (1826).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Russia

Among physicists born in Russia, Yuri Oganessian ranks 15. Before him are Pyotr Kapitsa (1894), Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov (1928), Ilya Frank (1908), Nikolay Basov (1922), Vitaly Ginzburg (1916), and Andre Geim (1958). After him are Vladimir Shukhov (1853), Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov (1891), Georgy Flyorov (1913), Vladimir Fock (1898), Yulii Khariton (1904), and Emil Wiechert (1861).

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