Glenn Seaborg
Glenn Seaborg was an American nuclear chemist who co-discovered plutonium and nine other transuranium elements, reshaping the periodic table.
He shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and later chaired the Atomic Energy Commission.
Element 106, seaborgium, was named in his honor—a rare distinction for a living scientist.
- plutoniumActinide, atomic number 94
- berkeliumSynthetic actinide, atomic ninety-seven
- californiumSynthetic actinide, number ninety-eight
- heavy elementsHigh atomic number substances
- Manhattan ProjectClandestine atomic weapons program
cyclotron · particle accelerator · transuranium · Lawrence · Nobel Prize · nuclear chemistry · actinides · radioactive · radioactive decay · isotopes · nuclear · fission · elements · atomic number · periodic table · chemistry · uranium · neutrons
- PhysicistsAlbert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Richard Feynman, Enrico Fermi, Max Planck
- American ScientistsBenjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison, Richard Feynman, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Carl Sagan
- Periodic Table HistoryMendeleev, atomic number, Meyer, transuranic elements, actinides
- BerkeleyUC Berkeley, Campanile, Memorial Stadium, Rose Garden, Hills
scientific domain
Glenn SeaborgEdwin Hubble
Carl Sagan · Stephen Hawking · astronomer · cosmologist · astrophysicist