Postage stamp

A new postage stamp in recognition of Yu.Ts.Oganessian’s contribution to the synthesis of superheavy elements has been issued in Armenia on December 28, 2017.

A prominent experimental physicist Yu. Ts. Oganessian is widely known for his works in the field of nuclear physics, research on nuclear reactions, experiments on synthesis and investigation of the properties of new elements of D.I.Mendeleev periodic table.

The whole life of Yu. Ts. Oganessian has been closely connected with the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, where he was sent to work after graduating from the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute in 1956. He has made his way from a young engineer, head of the accelerator start-adjusting group, to Director and Scientific Leader of the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions. Here defended his Candidate and Doctor of Science theses, has become Professor and a Full Member of the RAS. He is an author of three discoveries, a monograph, 11 inventions, more than 300 scientific papers.