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Glenn T. Seaborg

1912 - 1999

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Glenn Theodore Seaborg ( SEE-borg; April 19, 1912 – February 25, 1999) was an American chemist whose involvement in the synthesis, discovery and investigation of ten transuranium elements earned him a share of the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. His work in this area also led to his development of the actinide concept and the arrangement of the actinide series in the periodic table of the elements. Seaborg spent most of his career as an educator and research scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, serving as a professor, and, between 1958 and 1961, as the university's second chancellor. He advised ten US presidents—from Harry S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Glenn T. Seaborg has received more than 1,135,429 page views. His biography is available in 75 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 64 in 2019). Glenn T. Seaborg is the 136th most popular chemist (down from 125th in 2019), the 867th most popular biography from United States (up from 877th in 2019) and the 21st most popular American Chemist.

Glenn T. Seaborg is most famous for discovering plutonium and other transuranium elements, including americium, curium, berkelium, and californium.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Glenn T. Seaborg ranks 136 out of 602. Before him are Wendell Meredith Stanley, Lars Onsager, Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, William Howard Stein, Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, and Jean-Pierre Sauvage. After him are Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier, Joachim Frank, Kurt Wüthrich, Willard Libby, Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, and Sune Bergström.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Glenn T. Seaborg ranks 39. Before him are Leonid Kantorovich, Maria Mandl, Alois Brunner, Isser Harel, Pierre Boulle, and Chien-Shiung Wu. After him are Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland, Kim Philby, Tibor Sekelj, Jozef Gabčík, Otto Ernst Remer, and George Emil Palade. Among people deceased in 1999, Glenn T. Seaborg ranks 25. Before him are Arthur Leonard Schawlow, Jerzy Grotowski, Joe DiMaggio, Julius Nyerere, Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani, and Akio Morita. After him are Trygve Haavelmo, Henry Way Kendall, Iris Murdoch, Desmond Llewelyn, Abd al-Aziz ibn Baz, and Oliver Reed.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Glenn T. Seaborg ranks 867 out of 20,380. Before him are Anne Sullivan (1866), Susan B. Anthony (1820), Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868), Thomas Harris (1940), Neal Cassady (1926), and Theodore Schultz (1902). After him are John Sherman (1823), Oliver E. Williamson (1932), Sinclair Lewis (1885), Vivian Maier (1926), Matthew McConaughey (1969), and Jason Robards (1922).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Glenn T. Seaborg ranks 21. Before him are Harold Urey (1893), Vincent du Vigneaud (1901), Robert Burns Woodward (1917), Raymond Davis Jr. (1914), Wendell Meredith Stanley (1904), and William Howard Stein (1911). After him are Willard Libby (1908), Christian B. Anfinsen (1916), Arthur Kornberg (1918), Julius Axelrod (1912), Kary Mullis (1944), and Karl Barry Sharpless (1941).

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