the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, to super
heavy element research.
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
(born 1933) for his pioneering contributions to
transactinoid elements research.
Joseph Philip
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2016