American chemist (1912–1999)
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He co-discovered ten elements—including plutonium—and had one named for him while still alive. The chemist who reshaped the periodic table also helped isolate the fuel for the first atomic bomb, then spent decades advising presidents and pushing for nuclear arms control.
Glenn Theodore Seaborg was born April 19, 1912, and spent most of his career at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught, researched, and served as chancellor from 1958 to 1961. Early on, he pioneered nuclear medicine and discovered isotopes like iodine-131, used to treat thyroid disease. During the Manhattan Project he developed the extraction process that isolated plutonium fuel for the implosion-type bomb, and his wider work synthesizing transuranium elements led to the actinide concept—a new way of arranging the periodic table. He shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry wit…
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There is a beauty in discovery. There is mathematics in music, a kinship of science and poetry in the description of nature, and exquisite form in a molecule.
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