# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yuri-oganessian
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:06:58.323Z

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name: "Yuri Oganessian"
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description: "Yuri Tsolakovich Oganessian is a Russian and Armenian nuclear physicist who is best known as a researcher of superheavy elements. He has led the discovery of multiple chemical elements. 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. The heaviest known element, oganesson, is named after him, only the second time that an element was named after a living person."
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birthDate: "1933-04-14"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump