Oganessian

English

Etymology

From Russian Оганеся́н (Oganesján), russification of Armenian Հովհաննիսյան (Hovhannisyan).

Proper noun

Oganessian

  1. A surname from Armenian.
    • 2016 November 30, “IUPAC Announces the Names of the Elements 113, 115, 117, and 118”, in IUPAC‎[1]:
      Lastly, and in line with the tradition of honoring a scientist, the name oganesson and symbol Og for element 118 was proposed by the collaborating teams of discoverers at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna (Russia) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (USA) and recognizes Professor Yuri Oganessian (born 1933) for his pioneering contributions to transactinoid elements research.

Derived terms

Statistics

  • According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Oganessian is the 299206th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 58 individuals.

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