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Article: Chemist honored on periodic table. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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- March 13, 1994
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SAN JOSE, Calif. _ The world's newest chemical element, No. 106 on the periodic table, has been christened ``seaborgium'' in honor of Glenn T. Seaborg, the Berkeley Nobel laureate who helped discover it two decades ago.
The name will be announced Sunday at a meeting in San Diego of the American Chemical Society. It apparently marks the first time an element has been named for a living person.
Seaborg, 81, an associate director-at-large of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, is best known as a co-discoverer of plutonium, the element that fuels atomic bombs. It is one in a series of elements that do not exist in nature; instead, they are manufactured in the laboratory by ...