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"There is a beauty in discovery." -
Glenn Theodore Seaborg (1912-1999)

=__Glenn T. Seaborg__=

[[image:http://www.lbl.gov/images/PID/seaborg-106.gif width="352" height="316" align="right"]]__Biography__

 * Gelnn Theordoe Seaborg born April 19, 1912 (Michigan, USA)
 * Studied Nuclear Chemistry
 * Undergraduate and Master's degrees form UCLA
 * PhD in Chemistry at the University of California at Berkley.
 * Best known for discovering ten transuranium elements
 * In 1951, Seaborg shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with E.M. McMillan for "for their discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements".
 * Died February 25, 1999 (86 years old)

__Contribution to the Knowledge of the Atom__
> war ended, turned his attention to the production of further transuranium > elements, __developing the actinide transition series in the periodic table.__
 * Seaborg joined the Manhattan Project to work on the plan for producing sufficient plutonium-239 for a bomb—the one that was dropped on Nagasaki. Before the
 * Seaborg discovered Transactinides (the chemical elements with atomic numbers greater than those of the actinides.)
 * Helped display that elements don't have a weight limit. Atomic numbers can be large

__Seaborg's Experiments__

 * With the Manhattan Project, Seaborg led a team of more than 100 scientists into developing a successfulmeans of chemically separating fissionable plutonium
 * Made artificial elements by bombarding natural elements with projectiles that included deuterons, the nuclei of a heavy isotope of hydrogen