Dr. Witold Nazarewicz (born 1954) is a Polish nuclear physicist born in

Warsaw Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...

, Poland, currently teaching at

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. He is also the scientific director of the Holifield Radioactive Ion Beam Facility at

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. He earned his doctorate in physics from the Warsaw Institute of Technology in 1981 and holds the title of ''

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'' in Poland. Dr. Nazarewicz has been twice featured in ''

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'', once on February 1, 2004 in an article about the discovery of elements 113 and 115, and the second time on October 17, 2006 in an article on the discovery of disputed Element 118,

oganesson Oganesson is a synthetic chemical element with the symbol Og and atomic number 118. It was first synthesized in 2002 at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Dubna, near Moscow, Russia, by a joint team of Russian and American scient ...

. His University of Tennessee biography from 1999 reveals that he is the co-author of more than 225 research papers, and he is one of the most cited physicists in the world. Dr. Nazarewicz has also co-edited several books, including ''The Nuclear Many-Body Problem 2001''. In 2011 he was awarded the Bonner Prize.2012 Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics Recipient
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