Seaborg

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Glenn T(heodor), 1912–1999, U.S. chemist: chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission 1961–71; Nobel Prize 1951.

Seaborg

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SeaborgGlenn Theodore19121999MUSSCIENCE: chemistSCIENCE: physicist Glenn Theodore. 1912–99, US chemist and nuclear physicist. With E.M. McMillan, he discovered several transuranic elements, including plutonium (1940), curium, and americium (1944), and shared a Nobel prize for chemistry 1951

Seaborg

American chemist who led the team that discovered the element plutonium in 1941. In 1944 they discovered americium and curium, and by bombarding these two elements with alpha rays, Seaborg produced the elements berkelium and californium. In 1951 Seaborg shared the Nobel Prize for chemistry with American atomic scientist Edwin McMillan, who had predicted the existence of plutonium in 1939.

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In Seaborg's case their reactors will be housed on floating barges and use molten salt to moderate reactions.

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Although his family arrived in Watts from Mississippi in the mid-1950s, he knew a woman who went to school in the 1920s with Seaborg.

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Of his actual discovery, Seaborg later told an Associated Press reporter, “I didn’t think, ‘My God, we’ve changed the history of the world.’”

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The preferred bomb material was Plutonium-239, which had been discovered and isolated at Berkeley by Glenn Seaborg.

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Later, in a Berkeley laboratory, the physicist Glenn Seaborg and his colleagues detected two hundred atoms of what would become element No. 99 in a filter pulled from one of the planes.

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