Glenn Seaborg Dies After a Life Integral to History of 20th Century February 26, 1999 Contact: Lynn Yarris, lcyarris@lbl.gov BERKELEY, CA. -- Glenn Theodore Seaborg, Nobel Laureate chemist, discoverer of 10 atomic elements including plutonium and one that now bears his name, Associate Director-at-Large of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University Professor of Chemistry for the ...

A Nobel Laureate and one of the founding fathers of the atomic age. He was co-discoverer of plutonium and later served as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. Q: I want to go back to before the Second World War, when the heaviest naturally element known was uranium. Can you talk about how you were given the job, as a young chemist, to investigate plutonium A: I came to Berkeley as a ...

March 5, 1999 No one could ever accuse Glenn Seaborg of being one of those intellectuals who huddle up in an ivy-covered tower and never take their nose out of their books. He often expressed his belief in the dictum of Thomas Edison that genius is ninety-nine percent perspiration and said the secret to his success was that he could work harder than most. A reason for this was that throughout ...