Glenn T. Seaborg

Glenn Theodore Seaborg (April 19, 1912 – February 25, 1999) was an American chemist, who was prominent in the discovery and isolation of many transuranic elements (including plutonium, during the Manhattan Project), for which he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1951. He was later the chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Commission from 1961 until 1971.

Books

• The Actinide Elements (with Joseph Katz) (McGraw-Hill, 1954)
• The Transuranium Elements (New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1958)
• Nuclear Milestones (San Francisco: W. H. Freeman, 1972)
• Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Test Ban (with Benjamin S. Loeb) (University of California Press, 1981)
• ' (with Benjamin S. Loeb) (Lexington, Massachusetts: Lexington Books, 1987)
• ' (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993)
• ' (Columbus, Ohio: Battelle Press, 1994)
• ' (Washington, D.C.: American Chemical Society, 1996)
• ' (with son Eric Seaborg) (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001) ISBN 0-374-29991-9