Yuri Oganessian

Yuri Tsolakovich Oganessian is a Soviet, Armenian and Russian nuclear physicist who is best known as a researcher of superheavy chemical elements. He participated with the discovery of multiple elements of the periodic table. He succeeded Georgy Flyorov as director of the Flyorov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in 1989 and is now its scientific director. The heaviest element known of the periodic table, oganesson, is named after him, only the second time that an element was named after a living person.

14 April 1933

Born on the same birth date (14 April 1933): Arkady and Boris Strugatsky • Paddy Hopkirk

Born on the same birth day (14 April): Arkady and Boris Strugatsky • Baker Mayfield • Francis Collins • Frank Serpico • John Gielgud • Osamu Sato • Shizuka Kudo

Born in the same month (April 1933): Ben Nighthorse Campbell • Carol Burnett • David Hamilton (photographer) • Elizabeth Montgomery • Feridun Buğeker • Frank Gorshin • Joyce Ricketts • Marquitos (footballer, born 1933) • Sakıp Sabancı • Tom C. Korologos