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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Nat’l Medal, Chemistry
Harassment
“President Reagan’s … obsession with national security was so great that it demanded a security review of the personal journals I kept as Atomic Energy Commission chairman, although they’d been declassified 20 years before. After threatening me with arrest if I did not comply, a team of government experts, representing the man who had campaigned against “waste, fraud, and abuse,” spent hundreds of hours deleting sensitive information, such as an account of taking our children trick or treating on Halloween”.