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

"We'll likely have more accidents than existing reactors because it's a new technology, but these will be accidents and not disasters," says Troels Schonfeldt, co-founder of Denmark's Seaborg Technologies.

From BBC ● Nov. 18, 2021

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

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

One day in early March, Seaborg and Segre carried a hot sample of bombarded uranium out of the Crocker Lab in a lead bucket suspended from a long pole.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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