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

"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

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

Seaborg was as awestruck by the immensity of the Hanford plant as Lawrence had been on witnessing the transformation of Oak Ridge.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik