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Oganesson is named after the Russian physicist Yuri Oganessian, who led the research group at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia, that discovered the element. The name was officially approved by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) in November 2016 to honor his pioneering work in the discovery of several of the heaviest transuranium elements.12