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Edwin McMillan

1907 - 1991

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Edwin Mattison McMillan (September 18, 1907 – September 7, 1991) was an American physicist credited with being the first to produce a transuranium element, neptunium. For this, he shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Glenn Seaborg. A graduate of California Institute of Technology, he earned his doctorate from Princeton University in 1933, and joined the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory where he discovered oxygen-15 and beryllium-10. During World War II, he worked on microwave radar at the MIT Radiation Laboratory, and then on sonar at the Navy Radio and Sound Laboratory. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edwin McMillan is the 15th most popular chemist (up from 19th in 2019), the 113th most popular biography from United States (up from 183rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular American Chemist.

Edwin McMillan was most famous for the discovery of the first transuranium element, neptunium.

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Among chemists, Edwin McMillan ranks 15 out of 602. Before him are Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, Robert Boyle, Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Emil Fischer, Svante Arrhenius, and John Stith Pemberton. After him are Jöns Jacob Berzelius, Raymond Davis Jr., August Kekulé, William Ramsay, Adolf Windaus, and Ernst Chain.

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Among people born in 1907, Edwin McMillan ranks 3. Before him are Frida Kahlo, and Astrid Lindgren. After him are Claus von Stauffenberg, John Wayne, Ayub Khan, Katharine Hepburn, Oscar Niemeyer, Alexander R. Todd, W. H. Auden, Mircea Eliade, and J. Hans D. Jensen. Among people deceased in 1991, Edwin McMillan ranks 4. Before him are Freddie Mercury, Olav V of Norway, and Vasily Zaitsev. After him are Dr. Seuss, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Serge Gainsbourg, Carl David Anderson, Yves Montand, Klaus Barbie, Klaus Kinski, and Gustáv Husák.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edwin McMillan ranks 113 out of 20,380. Before him are Louis Armstrong (1901), Marvin Gaye (1939), Vince McMahon (1945), Jim Morrison (1943), Calvin Klein (1942), and John Stith Pemberton (1831). After him are Samuel Morse (1791), Ezra Pound (1885), Frank Sinatra (1915), Charles Manson (1934), Grace Hopper (1906), and Herbert A. Simon (1916).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Edwin McMillan ranks 2. Before him are John Stith Pemberton (1831). After him are Raymond Davis Jr. (1914), George Washington Carver (1864), John Fenn (1917), F. Sherwood Rowland (1927), Linus Pauling (1901), Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr. (1915), John Howard Northrop (1891), Wendell Meredith Stanley (1904), Gertrude B. Elion (1918), and Robert S. Mulliken (1896).

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