Seaborg Glenn Theodore
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Sea·borg
(sē′bôrg′), Glenn Theodore 1912-1999. American chemist. He shared a 1951 Nobel Prize for the discovery of plutonium and other transuranic elements.
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Sea·borg
(sē′bôrg′), Glenn Theodore 1912-1999. American chemist who led the team that discovered plutonium (1940). In 1944 they discovered americium and curium. By bombarding these two elements with alpha rays, Seaborg produced the elements berkelium and californium.
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