In 1999, researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory made use of these predictions and announced the discovery of livermorium and oganesson, in a paper published in Physical Review Letters, and very soon after the results were reported in Science.
W 1999 badacze w Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory wykorzystali jego przewidywania i ogłosili odkrycie liwermoru oraz oganessonu w „Physical Review Letters”, po czym bardzo szybko wyniki zostały opisane w „Science”.