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Nuclear physics · born 1933

Yuri Oganessian

Oganessian has led heavy-ion research at Dubna since the 1970s and is the second person to have an element named after him during his lifetime. His strategic contribution was to identify which combinations of beam and target give a compound nucleus a realistic chance of surviving: first the cold-fusion approach using lead and bismuth targets, and then, when that route lost reach, the systematic use of the doubly magic calcium-48 beam on actinide targets.

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Contribution & context

The Dubna program he directs, working with Livermore and Oak Ridge for the actinide targets, produced elements 114 through 118, extending the periodic table to the end of period 7. Element 118 was named oganesson in 2016.

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov — Rutherfordiumrepository.gsi.de — FleroviumRSC Periodic Table — Fleroviumseaborg.llnl.gov — Fleroviumpublications.iupac.org — Flerovium

Discoveries in context

The end of the seventh row ↗

Elements 104 to 118 were made a few atoms at a time, across a fifty-year competition between three laboratories, and completing the row required agreeing on what counts as proof.

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DISCOVERY HISTORYThe end of the seventh row ↗See the two fusion strategies and how far each one reaches.SCIENTISTSigurd Hofmann ↗Compare the cold-fusion program that produced the elements immediately below these.

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  1. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov — Rutherfordium ↗pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.govReference explanation · Source checked
  2. repository.gsi.de — Flerovium ↗repository.gsi.deReference explanation · Source checked
  3. RSC Periodic Table — Flerovium ↗Royal Society of ChemistryReference explanation · Source checked
  4. seaborg.llnl.gov — Flerovium ↗seaborg.llnl.govReference explanation · Source checked
  5. publications.iupac.org — Flerovium ↗publications.iupac.orgReference explanation · Source checked

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