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Glenn Theodore Seaborg
April 19, 1912 - February 25, 1999
American chemist
Glenn Seaborg was born in Michigan and received his education at the University of California. He began as a literature major, but switched to science as the result of an inspiring teacher. He graduated from the university in 1934, received his Ph.D in 1937, and joined the faculty later that same year. He was appointed chancellor of the university at Berkeley in 1958.
Seaborg began working with E. M. McMillan in 1940 on the elements beyond uranium. He took over this research after McMillan left in 1941. He and his group discovered many of the transuranium elements.
Seaborg is co-discoverer of the following elements:
He was the first to suggest that these elements were an actinide series.
Seaborg shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1951 with McMillan for the discovery of many of the transuranium elements.
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