Seaborg

American  

[see-bawrg] / ˈsi bɔrg /

noun

1. Glenn T(heodor), 1912–1999, U.S. chemist: chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission 1961–71; Nobel Prize 1951.

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Seaborg British  

/ ˈsiːbɔːɡ /

noun

1. Glenn Theodore. 1912–99, US chemist and nuclear physicist. With E.M. McMillan, he discovered several transuranic elements, including plutonium (1940), curium, and americium (1944), and shared a Nobel prize for chemistry 1951

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Seaborg Scientific  

/ sē′bôrg′ /

1. American chemist who led the team that discovered the element plutonium in 1941. In 1944 they discovered americium and curium, and by bombarding these two elements with alpha rays, Seaborg produced the elements berkelium and californium. In 1951 Seaborg shared the Nobel Prize for chemistry with American atomic scientist Edwin McMillan, who had predicted the existence of plutonium in 1939.

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Example Sentences

The preferred bomb material was Plutonium-239, which had been discovered and isolated at Berkeley by Glenn Seaborg.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 16, 2020

Plutonium was detected in trace amounts in natural uranium deposits by Glenn Seaborg and his associates in 1941.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

The chemist Glenn Seaborg, who discovered plutonium and eventually became the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, later called Baker “the world’s first nuclear disaster.”

From The New Yorker • Jul. 25, 2016

Glenn Seaborg was immortalised in his lifetime by element 106, seaborgium, which he considered a far greater honour than the Nobel Prize he won along with McMillan in 1951.

From BBC • Sep. 19, 2014

Glenn Seaborg, whose work with plutonium was still conducted under strict government security, was more candid about his capitulation.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik