Glenn Theodore Seaborg - Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 1951
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Glenn Theodore Seaborg

Prize
Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 1951
for their discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements
Together with: Edwin McMillan
Citizenship
United States United States
Languages
English, Swedish
date of birth
4/19/1912
place of birth
Ishpeming
date of death
2/25/1999
place of death
Lafayette
Lived
86 years
educated at
  • University of California, Berkeley
    • academic degree: Doctor of Philosophy
    • academic major: chemistry
    • doctoral advisor: George Ernest Gibson
    • end time: 1937
  • University of California, Los Angeles
    • end time: 1937
    • start time: 1929
  • Jordan High School
    • end time: 1929
member of
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1952
  • Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
    • start time: 12/12/1985
    • end time: 2/25/1999
  • Royal Society of London
    • start time: 6/27/1985
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1948
  • Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
  • Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences
  • American Physical Society
  • Academy of Sciences of the USSR
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
  • Polish Academy of Sciences
  • Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science
occupation
  • chemist
  • university teacher
  • nuclear physicist
doctoral student
  • W. Wayne Meinke
  • John Gofman
  • Gerhart Friedlander
  • Leon O. Morgan
  • Rodney H. Banks
  • Roger Batzel
  • Kenneth Street Jr.
  • Vera Kistiakowsky
  • Arthur Wahl
employer
  • Manhattan Project
  • University of California, Berkeley
  • United States Atomic Energy Commission
field of work
  • nuclear chemistry
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