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Article: Board member Glenn T. Seabord dies.(chemist)(Obituary)
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- The Futurist
- Article date:
- May 1, 1999
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Glenn T. Seaborg, 86, a Nobel Prize-winning chemist and a director of the World Future Society, died February 25 at his home in Lafayette, California.
As a young chemist working in the laboratories of the University of California at Berkeley in 1941, Seaborg and his colleagues created from uranium a new element, which was named plutonium. This transmutation of uranium into plutonium won Seaborg the 1951 Nobel Prize in chemistry, which he shared with his colleague, Edwin M. McMillan. A form of plutonium, plutonium 239, was found to undergo fission and release great energy when bombarded with neutrons. This meant it could be used as the explosive ingredient in ...