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): Abraham Ortelius • Alexander Greenlaw Hamilton • Audrey Long • Chas Mortimer • Chris Langham • David G. Burnet • David Hope, Baron Hope of Thornes • David Urquhart (bishop) • Don Willesee • François Duvalier • Georgina Chapman • Gregg Zaun • Guillaume LeBlanc • Harumafuji Kōhei • Henry I of Castile • Jean Fournet • Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock • Osamu Sato • Otto Lasanen • Roberto Ayala • Ruth Svedberg • V. Gordon Childe

Born in the same month (April 1933): Annie Easley • Anthony Llewellyn • Brian Hewson • Claude Cohen-Tannoudji • David Hamilton (photographer) • Edelmiro Amante • Feridun Buğeker • Fern Michaels • György Konrád • Jayne Mansfield • Joan Bakewell • Joyce Ricketts • Marquitos (footballer, born 1933) • Miodrag Radulovacki • Paddy Hopkirk • Rod Funseth • Rod McKuen • Willie Nelson