Glenn T. Seaborg Ph.D.
Glenn T. Seaborg Ph.D.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1951
National Medal of Science – Chemistry 1991
Nobel co-recipient: Edwin M. McMillan
Name: Glenn Theodore Seaborg
Birth: 19 April 1912, Ishpeming, MI, USA
Death: 25 February 1999, Lafayette, CA, USA
Affiliation: University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
Prize motivation: “for their discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements”
Field: nuclear chemistry
Mentor: Gilbert Newton Lewis
Nuclear Chemist. Transuranium – Plutonium. Isotopes identification. Actinide concept. Atomic Bomb. Peaceful use of atomic energy. Advisor to 10 US Presidents. Swedish ancestry. Journal since age 8 yrs. Hiking.
Franck Report: “I had joined a committee of scientists who advocated the use of the atomic bomb for demonstration purposes. We hoped the enemy would see the destructive power of this weapon and immediately surrender. In June, 1945, we attempted to deliver our plan, the Franck Report, to President Truman. I don’t know if he ever saw our work…”
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Covers Seaborg’s career over presidential terms of Franklin Roosevelt through George Bush. Contains many personnel accounts of historic events. Photographs of Seaborg with Presidents.
Autobiography taped, transcribed and edited by son Eric Seaborg giving complete detailed information on personal and scientific life.. During World War II, Seaborg led Manhattan Project group that devised the chemical extraction processes producing plutonium 239. Seaborg fought for the Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty and argued in favor of the peaceful uses and international controls of atomic energy
End of the Cold War
An American Chemical Society Publication
Seaborg served as an adviser to 10 US presidents whom he knew personally, beginning with Franklin D. Roosevelt. Gives us an insider’s look at national policy-making at the highest levels of government. Draws heavily from his own daily diary to provide first-hand accounts of his years advising presidents. Important look at evolution of national arms control, science, education, and nuclear policies.
Seaborg shares his thoughts and reflections on his broad interests, from the formulation of national science policy to the promise of youth. Distinguished career in science and public service that spanned more than 50 years. Published over 500 works and … 700 speeches on a wide variety of topics. This a collection of nearly forty of his more popular speeches and articles, Directed at a mostly non-scientific and non-technical audience. Readers will be able to share Seaborg’s thoughts, as he originally penned them.
Three pioneering investigators provide an account of discovery and investigation of nuclear and chemical properties of twenty presently known transuranium elements. Detailed personal, scientific accounts, many photos
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