New element named after Armenian scientist
International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) named four new elements. For the element with atomic number 118 the collaborating teams of discoverers at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna (Russia) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (USA) proposed the name oganesson and symbol Og. The proposal is in line with the tradition of honoring a scientist and recognizes Professor Yuri Oganessian (born 1933) for his pioneering contributions to transactinoid elements research. His many achievements include the discovery of superheavy elements and significant advances in the nuclear physics of superheavy nuclei including experimental evidence for the “island of stability”, informs the website of the IUPAC. Yuri Oganessian was born in 1933, April 14, in Rostov Don, Russia. He is a full member of Russian Academy of Science, corresponding member (1990), academician (2003), foreign member of Serbian Academy of Science and Arts (2003), foreign member of National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia (2006) He was honored with USSR State Prize (1975), Kurchatov Prize of USSR Academy of Sciences (1989), Flerov Prize of JINR (1993), Alexander von Humboldt Award (1995), Lise Meitner Prize (2000). Three other elements were named nihonium (Nh) moscovium (Mc), tennessine (Ts), taking into account places of their discovery.
