A Nobel Laureate and one of the founding fathers of the atomic age. He was co-discoverer of plutonium and later served as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. Q: I want to go back to before the Second World War, when the heaviest naturally element known was uranium. Can you talk about how you were given the job, as a young chemist, to investigate plutonium A: I came to Berkeley as a ...

Glenn Seaborg and Edwin McMillan 1951 Nobel Prize for Chemistry Presentation of Award Acceptance Speeches Biography Submitted by Dr. Seaborg to the Nobel Committee Biography Submitted by Dr. McMillian to the Nobel Committee Presentation of Award: 1951 Nobel Prize for Chemistry Dr. Glenn Seaborg and Dr. Edwin McMillan on the day they were notified that they had won the Nobel Prize, October 1951.

Chemical & Engineering News January 12, 1998 Copyright 1998 by the American Chemical Society Glenn Seaborg: A Towering Figure In Chemistry Editors Note: Glenn T. Seaborg is a legendary name in chemistry today-so well-known and well-beloved, in fact, that C&EN readers gave him the third-highest number of votes in the balloting process that nominated C&EN's Top 75 Distinguished Contributors to ...