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Article: Glenn Seaborg.(Brief Article)(Obituary)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- March 6, 1999
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IT IS rare to name a chemical element after a living person. But Glenn Seaborg had an exceptional claim to that honour. He added ten elements to the periodic table-amounting to almost a tenth of all the elements known. So the American Chemical Society, which struggled against international opposition to allow this exception, was simply recognising someone who had significantly extended its field of play when element number 106 (the last to be discovered by Dr Seaborg) was officially dubbed ``seaborgium'' in March 1997.
Glenn Seaborg was not the first modern alchemist to transmute existing elements into previously unknown ones. Technetium and neptunium had already ...
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...BERKELEY, Calif., Oct. 3 -- Lt. Gov. John Garamendi, D-Calif., issued the following press release: Lieutenant Governor John Garamendi, a three-year letterman for the Golden Bears from 1963-65 and a public servant, elected official for more than 30 years, has been chosen as the 2009 recipient of the
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