International Meeting of the Discoverers of Chemical Elements

The four element discoverers — from left: Professor Peter Armbruster and Professor Gottfried Münzenberg, GSI Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt; Dr. Kouji Morimoto, RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science, Wako, Japan; Professor Yuri Oganessian, Flerov Laboratory for Nuclear Reactions, Dubna, Russland.

As part of the International Year of the Periodic Table 2019, the Conference on the Chemistry and Physics of Heavy Elements (TAN) taking place in Wilhelmshaven, Germany from the 25th to the 30th of August, brought together the discoverers of new chemical elements in a unique historical gathering. Researchers from Germany, Russia and Japan, who have added new elements to the periodic table in recent years, met at the international congress.

Group picture — From left: Professor Christoph E. Düllmann; Professor Peter Armbruster, Professor Gottfried Münzenberg, Professor Paolo Giubellino, Dr. Kouji Morimoto, Professor Hideto En’yo, Professor Sergey N. Dmitriev, Professor Yuri Oganessian, Professor Michael Block.