Born:Glen Theodore Seaborg, (1912-04-19)April 19, 1912, Ishpeming, Michigan, US
Died:February 25, 1999(1999-02-25) (aged 86), Lafayette, California, US
Awards:ACS Award in Pure Chemistry (1947), , Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1948), , Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1951), , Centenary Prize (1956), , Perkin Medal (1957), , Enrico Fermi Award (1959), , Franklin Medal (1963), , Willard Gibbs Award (1966), , Priestley Medal (1979), , Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1985), , Vannevar Bush Award (1988), , National Medal of Science (1991)
Fields:Nuclear chemistry
Spouse:Helen L. Seaborg (m. 1942)
Thesis:The interaction of fast neutrons with lead (1937)
Children:7, including David
Education:University of California, Los Angeles (BA), , University of California, Berkeley (PhD)
Known for:Contributions to the synthesis, discovery and investigation of ten transuranium elements
Preceded by:Clark Kerr
Institutions:University of California, Berkeley, , University of Chicago, , Manhattan Project, , US Atomic Energy Commission
Succeeded by:Edward W. Strong
Doctoral advisors:George Ernest Gibson, , Gilbert Newton Lewis
Doctoral students:Ralph Arthur James, , Joseph William Kennedy, , Elizabeth Rauscher, , Arthur Wahl
Other notable students:Margaret Melhase, Geoffrey Wilkinson