Who did Yuri Oganessian succeed as director of the Flerov Laboratory?
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Georgy Flyorov
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Answer
Yuri Oganessian succeeded Georgy Flyorov as director of the Flerov Laboratory in 1991. Flyorov had been the director of the laboratory since its founding in 1949. Oganessian was a nuclear physicist who had been working at the laboratory since 1966.
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