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.

Early life

Of Swedish ancestry, Seaborg was born in Ishpeming, Michigan, grew up in South Gate, California (a suburb next to Watts in Los Angeles), took his bachelors degree at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1934, where he joined Alpha Chi Sigma, and his doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley in 1937. He lived most of his retired life in Lafayette, California.

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Swedish - Ishpeming, Michigan - South Gate, California - Watts - Los Angeles - University of California, Los Angeles - 1934 - Alpha Chi Sigma - Doctorate - University of California, Berkeley - 1937 - Lafayette, California

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He followed Frederick Soddy's work investigating isotopes, and discovered many new isotopes of common elements.

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Frederick Soddy - Isotope

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