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Glenn T. Seaborg

1912 - 1999

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Glenn Theodore Seaborg ( SEE-borg; April 19, 1912 – February 25, 1999) was an American chemist whose involvement in the synthesis, discovery and investigation of ten transuranium elements earned him a share of the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. His work in this area also led to his development of the actinide concept and the arrangement of the actinide series in the periodic table of the elements. Seaborg spent most of his career as an educator and research scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, serving as a professor, and, between 1958 and 1961, as the university's second chancellor. He advised ten US presidents—from Harry S. Truman to Bill Clinton—on nuclear policy and was Chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Commission from 1961 to 1971, where he pushed for commercial nuclear energy and the peaceful applications of nuclear science. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Glenn T. Seaborg is the 148th most popular chemist (down from 136th in 2019), the 745th most popular biography from United States (up from 867th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular American Chemist.

Glenn T. Seaborg is most famous for discovering plutonium and other transuranium elements, including americium, curium, berkelium, and californium.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Glenn T. Seaborg ranks 148 out of 602. Before him are Michel Eugène Chevreul, Julius Lothar Meyer, Roger D. Kornberg, Jerome Karle, Kurt Wüthrich, and Johann Rudolf Glauber. After him are Sune Bergström, Casimir Funk, Marshall Warren Nirenberg, Hermann Kolbe, Harry Kroto, and Martin Heinrich Klaproth.

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Among people born in 1912, Glenn T. Seaborg ranks 29. Before him are Alois Brunner, Chuck Jones, Ghazi of Iraq, Heinrich Harrer, B. D. Jatti, and Hanna Reitsch. After him are Maria Mandl, Roy Sullivan, Sergiu Celibidache, Edward Mills Purcell, Tibor Sekelj, and Leonid Kantorovich. Among people deceased in 1999, Glenn T. Seaborg ranks 21. Before him are Raisa Gorbacheva, Arthur Leonard Schawlow, Wassily Leontief, Anatoliy Solovianenko, Robert Bresson, and Willi Stoph. After him are Wilt Chamberlain, Georgios Papadopoulos, Joe DiMaggio, Trygve Haavelmo, Oliver Reed, and Gerhard Herzberg.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Glenn T. Seaborg ranks 745 out of 20,380. Before him are Jerome Bruner (1915), Jerome Karle (1918), Ice-T (1958), Alec Baldwin (1958), J. Paul Getty (1892), and Kim Novak (1933). After him are James Earl Jones (1931), John Cazale (1935), Martin Cooper (1928), Charles Goodyear (1800), Mike Pence (1959), and William G. Morgan (1870).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Glenn T. Seaborg ranks 33. Before him are William E. Moerner (1953), Harold Urey (1893), Robert Burns Woodward (1917), Paul Flory (1910), Roger D. Kornberg (1947), and Jerome Karle (1918). After him are Marshall Warren Nirenberg (1927), Robert W. Holley (1922), Paul D. Boyer (1918), Willard Libby (1908), Robert Bruce Merrifield (1921), and Richard F. Heck (1931).

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