Edwin M. McMillan Ph.D.
Edwin M. McMillan Ph.D.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1951
National Medal of Science – Physical Sciences 1990
Nobel co-recipient: Glenn T. Seaborg
Name: Edwin Mattison McMillan
Birth: 18 September 1907, Redondo Beach, CA, USA
Death: 7 September 1991, El Cerrito, CA, USA
Institution: University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
Award: “for their discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements”
Subject: chemical thermodynamics, physical chemistry
Portion of Cash: 1/2
Biography
Patents
Nat’l Medal, Physical Sciences
The President’s National Medal of Science: Recipient Details
Title: Professor of Physics Emeritus
Affiliation: University of California, Berkeley Berkeley,California 94720 USA
Gender: Male
Year Deceased: 1991
Award Discipline: Physical Sciences
Award Year: 1990
Citation: “For his scientific achievements including the identification of the first transuranic element (neptunium) and the invention of the phase stability principle incorporated in the synchrotron.”
Presented by President Bush at a White House East Room Ceremony on November 13, 1990.