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 (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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Seaborg

(ˈsiːbɔːɡ)
n
(Biography) Glenn Theodore. 1912–99, US chemist and nuclear physicist. With E.M. McMillan, he discovered several transuranic elements, including plutonium (1940), curium, and americium (1944), and shared a Nobel prize for chemistry 1951
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Sea•borg

(ˈsi bɔrg)

n.
Glenn T(heodor), 1912–99, U.S. chemist: Nobel prize 1951.
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Noun1.Seaborg - United States chemist who was one of the discoverers of plutonium (1912-1999)
Glenn T. Seaborg, Glenn Theodore Seaborg
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