Prof. Akunuri V. Ramayyat has discovered a new super-heavy element Tennessine-117 (Ts-117).
US Representative for the Tennessee's 5th congressional district Jim Cooper gives framed copies of the statement to Prof. Ramayya.
Visakhapatnam: Prof. Akunuri V. Ramayya, an alumnus of Andhra University and a nuclear physicist at Vanderbilt University of USA, has discovered a new super-heavy element — Tennessine-117 (Ts-117). Prof. Ramayya and Prof. Joseph Hamilton of the Department of Physics of Vanderbilt University are the main contributors of the discovery of a new addition to the Periodic Table. Ts-117 is named after the Tennessee State in US.
Andhra University Vice-Chancellor, Prof. G. Nageswara Rao, has expressed his happiness and congratulated Prof. Ramayya for the great honour he brought to AU. “Prof. Ramayya and his research partners were duly honoured for their novel contribution to Nuclear Science,” Prof. Rao said.
( Source : Deccan Chronicle. )
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