Element discovered by Armenian scientist officially included in Mendeleev's periodic table
Today the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry has officially announced about adding four new elements on Mendeleev's periodic table. Element 113 has been named nihonium. 115 element is called moscovium, 117 element_ tennessine and 118 element_ oganesson.
Oganesson has been named after Russian-Armenian scientist Yuri Oganessian.
“Numerous discoveries made by him include revelations of superheavy elements, which have greatly contributed to the development of nuclear physics,” the statement on the Union’s page reads.
Yuri Tsolakovich Oganessian is a Rostov-on-Don-born Russian nuclear physicist of Armenian descent. He is a foreign member of the RA Academy of Sciences and is an honorary doctor of YSU. In 2010 he was awarded with the Golden Medal of State Committee of Science of the RA Ministry of Education and Science for his great contribution to the development of the cooperation between the Armenian scientific organizations and the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research.
He is an acknowledged world-leader in the field of synthesizing and exploring new elements being the second person to get an element named for him while alive, after Glenn Seaborg.