Glenn T. Seaborg
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LOCATION: Berkeley, CA, United States
University Professor of Chemistry; Associate Director-at-Large, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley; Chancellor, 1958–61. Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission, 1961–71. Cowinner, Nobel Prize for Chemistry, 1951. Author of Man-Made Transuranium Elements.
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Transuranium element, any of the chemical elements that lie beyond uranium in the periodic table—i.e., those with atomic numbers greater than 92. Twenty-six of these elements have been discovered and named or are awaiting confirmation of their discovery. Eleven of them, from neptunium through…
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