McMillan

American  

[muhk-mil-uhn] / məkˈmɪl ən /

noun

1. Edwin Mattison 1907–91, U.S. educator and physicist: Nobel Prize in chemistry 1951.

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McMillan British  

/ məkˈmɪlən /

noun

1. Edwin M ( attison ). 1907–91, US physicist; Nobel prize for chemistry 1951 (with Glenn Seaborg) for the discovery of transuranic elements

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McMillan

Producer Emma Scott and reporters Robert McMillan and Sam Kessler, who worked on the documentary, answered reader questions about what they found.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

“We’re starting to get near the bottom,” McMillan said, adding that he believes the U.S. wine industry should stabilize in the next two years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

The parliament's piper, MSP Stuart McMillan, brought the event to a close with a performance in the members' garden of Bonnie Dundee and a Hundred Pipers.

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026

In his Boulder lab chock full of instruments, Kyle McMillan -- a PhD candidate in atmospheric chemistry -- is working to better understand what happens in the clouds.

From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026

Ed McMillan had staged the Rad Lab’s most determined search for the isotope by propping a bottle of granular ammonium nitrate in the path of the thirty-seven-inch machine’s neutron beam for several months.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik