Seaborg, Glenn T

Introduction

American nuclear chemist.

Discovered plutonium in 1940 at the University of California, Berkeley. Also worked at the Wartime Metallurgical Laboratory at the University of Chicago (later to become the Argonne National Laboratory) to develop a process to isolate plutonium for use in an atomic bomb.

Seaborg is credited with discovery or codiscovery if 5 elements

• americium (1944)
• berkelium (1949)
• californium (1950)
• curium (1944)
• plutonium (1940)

In the 1960s, he chaired the Atomic Energy Commission in Washington, DC.

Element #106 seaborgium is named in his honor.

More general terms

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