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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Seaborg

Although his family arrived in Watts from Mississippi in the mid-1950s, he knew a woman who went to school in the 1920s with Seaborg.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2020

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, an American chemist and physicist, received the Nobel Prize in physics in 1951 for discovery of several transuranic elements, including plutonium.

From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015

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 is a very competent young chemist,” he said, “but he isn’t that good.”

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik