This science information is via Karen Martirosyan's Facebook post on June 8, 2016 · New York ·

The new chemical element-118 will be named oganesson (Og), in honour of the Russian nuclear physicist Yuri Oganessian who led the team that synthesised element-117.


My thought: Why his original name isn't taken "Oganessian" and instead it is "oganesson"? And he is promoted as Russian nuclear physicist, and not as Armenian?

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