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Glenn T. Seaborg

American chemist

1912 - 1999

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His biography is available in 75 different languages on Wikipedia. Glenn T. Seaborg is the 148th most popular chemist (down from 136th in 2024), the 745th most popular biography from United States (up from 867th in 2019) and the 33rd 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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Glenn T. Seaborg ranks #745 among 23,232 people in Pantheon born in United States, inside the top 4% of that group.

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Glenn T. Seaborg climbed 1,896 places in Pantheon's global HPI ranking, from #8,732 to #6,841.

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Glenn T. Seaborg's biography appears in 75 language editions of Wikipedia, more than 95% of all Chemists.

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Among Chemists

Among chemists, Glenn T. Seaborg ranks 148 out of 610. Before him are Michel Eugène Chevreul, Julius Lothar Meyer, Roger D. Kornberg, Jerome Karle, Kurt Wüthrich, and Johann Rudolf Glauber. After him are Sune Bergström, Casimir Funk, Marshall Warren Nirenberg, Hermann Kolbe, Harry Kroto, and Martin Heinrich Klaproth.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Glenn T. Seaborg ranks 29. Before him are Alois Brunner, Chuck Jones, Ghazi of Iraq, Heinrich Harrer, B. D. Jatti, and Hanna Reitsch. After him are Maria Mandl, Roy Sullivan, Sergiu Celibidache, Edward Mills Purcell, Tibor Sekelj, and Leonid Kantorovich. Among people deceased in 1999, Glenn T. Seaborg ranks 21. Before him are Raisa Gorbacheva, Arthur Leonard Schawlow, Wassily Leontief, Anatoliy Solovianenko, Robert Bresson, and Willi Stoph. After him are Wilt Chamberlain, Georgios Papadopoulos, Joe DiMaggio, Trygve Haavelmo, Oliver Reed, and Gerhard Herzberg.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Glenn T. Seaborg ranks 745 out of 23,232. Before him are Jerome Bruner (1915), Jerome Karle (1918), Ice-T (1958), Alec Baldwin (1958), J. Paul Getty (1892), and Kim Novak (1933). After him are James Earl Jones (1931), John Cazale (1935), Martin Cooper (1928), Charles Goodyear (1800), Mike Pence (1959), and William G. Morgan (1870).

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Among Chemists In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Glenn T. Seaborg ranks 33. Before him are William E. Moerner (1953), Harold Urey (1893), Robert Burns Woodward (1917), Paul Flory (1910), Roger D. Kornberg (1947), and Jerome Karle (1918). After him are Marshall Warren Nirenberg (1927), Robert W. Holley (1922), Paul D. Boyer (1918), Willard Libby (1908), Robert Bruce Merrifield (1921), and Richard F. Heck (1931).

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