Yu.Ts.Oganessian became an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry

 

Academician Yu.Ts.Oganessian was elected as Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry for the opening of 118th element of the periodic table, named Oganesson in his honour. This event took place during the closing ceremony of the bilateral Year of Science and Education at the Royal Society on March 13, 2018.

Yuri Ts. Oganessian greatly contributed to research of transactinide elements. 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”. 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 for his pioneering contributions to transactinoid elements research. Thus, on 30 November 2016, the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) confirmed the name “oganesson” for element 118.

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