Yuri Tsolakovich Oganessian is the only man in the world whose address can be written with chemical elements. He is waiting for letters from school students of the Big Break project. The authors of the most memorable ones will receive invitations for the meeting with the scientist.

It should be reminded that on 23 July, the largest in Europe, Asia, and America panel “Mendeleev’s Periodic Table” was opened on the imitative of Yuri Tsolakovich Oganessian on the Volga embankment in Dubna where the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research is located. More than 10 thousand Big Break students watched the broadcast of the opening ceremony of the grandiose art object. Moreover, Scientific Secretary of the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions Alexander Karpov delivered a lecture on superheavy elements for participants of the Big Break competition. About 3.5 thousand school students watched it online.

The Joint Institute for Nuclear Research – being an international scientific organization – supports the interest of school children all over the world in science, and the Big Break project announces a competition for school children “Write to the scientist” in the Year of Science and Technology. Students are proposed to write a letter in an envelope to a scientist, RAS Academician Yuri Tsolakovich Oganessian. He is the only person in the world whose address can be written with chemical elements:

Ru (rutenium) – Russia,
Mc (moscovium) – Moscow region,
Db (dubnium) – Dubna,
Fl (flerovium) – Flerov street,
Og (oganesson) – to Yuri Tsolakovich Oganessian.

And every postman knows the house of Yuri Oganessian in Dubna.

Senders may ask questions to the scientist. Each participant will receive a commemorative postcard and a souvenir from Academician Oganessian, and he will invite for a meeting the authors of three favorite letters. The competition will last until 1 September.