page_title: Kōsuke Morita
section_title: Research achievements
hierarchical_section_title: Kōsuke Morita / Research achievements
caption_attribution_description: Kōsuke Morita, Professor of the Faculty of Science, Kyushu University, and Kōji Morimoto, Leader of the Superheavy Element Device Development Team, Research Group for Superheavy Element, Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science, Riken, attended the press conference with Hiroshi Matsumoto, President of the Riken, and Hideto En'yo, Director of Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science, Riken, in Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture on December 1, 2016.
context_page_description: Kōsuke Morita is a Japanese experimental nuclear physicist, known as the leader of the Japanese team that discovered element 113. He currently holds a joint appointment as a professor at Kyushu University’s Graduate School of Science and as director of the Super Heavy Element Research Group at Riken's Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science.
caption: Morita at the press conference where the name Nihonium (symbol Nh) was officially announced for element 113. (December 1st, 2016)
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