Seaborg, Glenn Theodore
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Seaborg, Glenn Theodore (1912-1999), American chemist and Nobel laureate, known for his discovery of new chemical elements. Seaborg was born in Ishpeming, Michigan, and was educated at the University of California. He taught chemistry at the university after 1939, becoming an assistant professor in 1941 and a full professor in 1945. He was chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission from 1961 to 1971 and then became professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and associate director of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. From 1942 to 1946, at the Metallurgical Laboratory of the University of Chicago, he conducted research in nuclear chemistry and physics in connection with the atomic energy project. He is known particularly for his discovery and characterization of many radioactive isotopes (see Isotope) and for his share in the discovery of such elements as plutonium, americium, curium, berkelium, californium, einsteinium, fermium, mendelevium, and nobelium. Seaborg shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in chemistry with American physicist Edwin McMillan. His writings include Nuclear Properties of the Heavy Elements (1964) and Nuclear Milestones (1972). In 1997 the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry announced that the chemical element with atomic number 106 would be given the name seaborgium (Sg) in his honor.
Seaborg, Glenn Theodore (1912-1999), American chemist and Nobel laureate, known for his discovery of new chemical elements. Seaborg was born in Ishpeming, Michigan, and was educated at the University of California. He taught chemistry at the university after 1939, becoming an assistant professor in 1941 and a full professor in 1945. He was chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission from 1961 to 1971 and then became professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and associate director of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. From 1942 to 1946, at the Metallurgical Laboratory of the University of Chicago, he conducted research in nuclear chemistry and physics in connection with the atomic energy project. He is known particularly for his discovery and characterization of many radioactive isotopes (see Isotope) and for his share in the discovery of such elements as plutonium, americium, curium, berkelium, californium, einsteinium, fermium, mendelevium, and nobelium. Seaborg shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in chemistry with American physicist Edwin McMillan. His writings include Nuclear Properties of the Heavy Elements (1964) and Nuclear Milestones (1972). In 1997 the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry announced that the chemical element with atomic number 106 would be given the name seaborgium (Sg) in his honor.
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