Glenn Seaborg

<html> <head> <title>Glenn Seaborg</title> <meta name="googlebot" content="noodp"> <meta name="robots" content="noodp"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" href="/silly-nndb-icon.png" /><style type="text/css">  </style></head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff> <center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td valign=top><table width=550 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td bgcolor=white><table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" background="/nndb.gif"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/"><img src="/title.gif" width="260" height="50" border=0 alt="NNDB"></a></td> <td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> <tr align="center"> <td width="25%" nowrap>This is a beta version of NNDB</td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="middle"> <form action="http://search.nndb.com/search/nndb.cgi" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="nndb" value="1"></input> Search: <select name="omenu"> <option value="unspecified" selected>All Names</option> <option value="living">Living people</option> <option value="dead">Dead people</option> <option value="bands">Band Names</option> <option value="books">Book Titles</option> <option value="movies">Movie Titles</option> <option value="fulltext">Full Text</option> </select> for <input name="query" value="" size=24 maxlength=96> <input type=submit value="Search"> </form></td> </tr> </table>        </td></tr><tr><td bgcolor=red height=2></td></tr><map name=fool><area coords="102,0,240,14" href="/people/745/000055580/bibliography/" alt="bibliography"></map><tr bgcolor=F0F0F0><td bgcolor=F0F0F0 style="padding: 0px 15px 15px 15px;"><img src="/red-profile-2.gif" align="right" height=15 width=240 border=0 usemap=#fool> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=F0F0F0>Glenn Seaborg<img src="seaborg-1941-sm.jpg" height=395 width=269 align=right hspace=10 vspace=10 alt="Glenn Seaborg">AKA Glenn Theodore SeaborgBorn: <a href="/lists/627/000106309/" class=proflink>19-Apr</a>-<a href="/lists/911/000105596/" class=proflink>1912</a> Birthplace: <a href="/geo/036/000081790/" class=proflink>Ishpeming, MI</a> Died: <a href="/lists/939/000106621/" class=proflink>25-Feb</a>-<a href="/lists/509/000106191/" class=proflink>1999</a> Location of death: <a href="/geo/186/000079946/" class=proflink>Lafayette, CA</a> Cause of death: <a href="/lists/328/000069121/" class=proflink>Stroke</a> Remains: Cremated (ashes in family's possession) Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: <a href="/lists/629/000096341/" class=proflink>Physicist</a>Nationality: United States Executive summary: Co-Discoverer of PlutoniumAmerican physicist Glenn Seaborg led the research team that discovered plutonium in 1940, and in 1941 isolated Uranium-233. He oversaw plutonium manufacturing and enrichment research for the Manhattan Project, culminating in the development of atomic weapons. Seaborg and his colleagues also discovered americium, berkelium, californium, curium, einsteinium, fermium, mendelevium, and nobelium, and identified more than 100 element isotopes throughout the periodic table. He shared the 1951 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with <a href="/people/448/000100148/">Edwin M. McMillan</a>, and he is the namesake of seaborgium, discovered in 1974 by Albert Ghiorso. In 1963 he served as a key scientific and diplomatic negotiator in work that led to the Limited Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty (1963), which limited the testing of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere and under the sea, and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (1968), which limited the spread of nuclear weapons technology. His wife, Helen Griggs, was the secretary to Nobel laureate <a href="/people/974/000055809/">Ernest Lawrence</a>.Father: Herman Theodore Seaborg Mother: Selma Ericksburg (b. Sweden) Sister: Jeanette (younger) Wife: Helen Lucille Griggs (m. 6-Jun-1942, four sons, two daughters) Son: Peter Glenn (b. 31-May-1946, d. 1997) Daughter: Lynne Seaborg Cobb (b. 6-Sep-1947) Son: David Michael (evolutionary biologist, b. 22-Apr-1949) Son: Stephen Keith (b. 14-Aug-1951) Son: John Eric (b. 17-Nov-1954) Daughter: Dianne Karole (b. 20-Nov-1959)     High School: Jordan High School, Los Angeles, CA (1929)     University: <a href="/edu/471/000068267/">BA Chemistry, University of California at Los Angeles (1934)</a>     University: <a href="/edu/470/000068266/">PhD Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley (1937)</a>     Teacher: <a href="/edu/470/000068266/">Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley (1939-45)</a>     Administrator: <a href="/edu/470/000068266/">Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley (1945-71)</a>     Administrator: <a href="/edu/520/000068316/">Section Chief, Metallurgical Lab, University of Chicago (1942-46)</a>     Administrator: <a href="/edu/470/000068266/">Chancellor, University of California at Berkeley (1958-61)</a>     <a href="/honors/213/000068009/">Nobel Prize for Chemistry</a> 1951 (with <a href="/people/448/000100148/">Edwin M. McMillan</a>)     John Scott Medal 1953     Perkin Medal 1957     <a href="/honors/279/000099979/">Enrico Fermi Award</a> 1959     <a href="/honors/044/000111708/">Benjamin Franklin Medal</a> 1963 (by the Franklin Institute)     <a href="/honors/277/000099977/">Priestley Medal</a> 1979     Henry DeWolf Smyth Award 1982     <a href="/honors/278/000099978/">Vannevar Bush Award</a> 1988     <a href="/honors/636/000042510/">National Medal of Science</a> 1991     <a href="/gov/789/000055624/">US Atomic Energy Commission</a> General Advisory Committee (1946-50)     <a href="/gov/789/000055624/">US Atomic Energy Commission</a> Chairman (1961-71)     <a href="/org/527/000118173/">Alpha Chi Sigma Chemistry Fraternity</a>     <a href="/org/811/000055646/">American Academy of Arts and Sciences</a>     <a href="/org/766/000051613/">American Association for the Advancement of Science</a>     <a href="/org/790/000055625/">American Chemical Society</a> President     American Institute of Chemists     <a href="/org/128/000164633/">American Nuclear Society</a>     <a href="/org/640/000052484/">American Philosophical Society</a> 1952     <a href="/org/496/000071283/">American Physical Society</a>     <a href="/org/114/000052955/">Bohemian Grove</a>     <a href="/org/079/000165581/">California Academy of Sciences</a>     <a href="/org/828/000056660/">CSICOP</a>     <a href="/org/057/000126676/">Commonwealth Club of California</a>     <a href="/org/692/000054530/">National Academy of Sciences</a> 1948     <a href="/org/359/000122990/">New York Academy of Sciences</a>     <a href="/org/512/000041389/">Phi Beta Kappa Society</a>     <a href="/org/289/000113947/">Royal Society of Arts</a>     <a href="/org/992/000218338/">Royal Society of Chemistry</a>     <a href="/org/107/000099807/">Royal Society of Edinburgh</a> Fellow (1959)     <a href="/org/457/000041334/">Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society</a>     ASC Award in Pure Chemistry 1947     John Ericsson Medal 1948     Nichols Medal 1948     <a href="/group/738/000055573/">Manhattan Project</a> 1942-46     <a href="/event/187/000071971/">Stroke</a> 24-Aug-1998     <a href="/lists/528/000044396/">Swedish Ancestry</a>     <a href="/lists/359/000099062/">Chemical Element Namesake</a> seaborgium (Sg, 106) Author of books: The Plutonium Story (<tt>1994</tt>, journals) A Scientist Speaks Out: A Personal Perspective on Science, Society and Change (<tt>1996</tt>, essays) A Chemist in the White House: From the Manhattan Project to the End of the Cold War (<tt>1998</tt>, memoir) Adventures in the Atomic Age: From Watts to Washington (<tt>2001</tt>, memoir, posthumous) <table> <tr> <td align=right valign=middle style="padding-right: 5px;">New! <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/" class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">NNDB MAPPER</a></td> <td valign=middle align=right style="border-left: 1px solid #bbb; padding-left: 5px;">Create a map starting with</td> <td valign=middle align=right><a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=55580"><img src="/man.gif" border=0 style="padding: 2px;"></a></td> <td align=left valign=middle> <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=55580">Glenn Seaborg</a></td> </tr> </table> Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript. 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