Edwin McMillan
American physicist (1907-1991)
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Edwin McMillan cracked the periodic table's ceiling by synthesizing neptunium, becoming the first to manufacture a transuranium element. He split the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Glenn Seaborg for the feat.
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Edwin Mattison McMillan was an American physicist credited with being the first to produce a transuranium element, neptunium. For this, he shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Glenn Seaborg.
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