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Article: Henry Kendall, Glenn Seaborg, Gerhard Herzberg.(scientists)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
- Article from:
- Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
- Article date:
- May 1, 1999
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Over a 14-day period this year, the world lost three distinguished scientists, Nobel laureates all, and all associated in some way with the Bulletin.
Henry W. Kendall, 72, died February 18 while scuba diving in Florida's Wakulla Springs State Park with a mapping team from National Geographic magazine. Glenn Seaborg, who led the research team that discovered plutonium, died February 25 at his home in California. He was 86. And Gerhard Herzberg, one of Canada's greatest scientists, died March 3 in Ottawa at the age of 94.
Starting in the late 1960s, Henry Kendall, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, worked with Jerome I. Friedman and ...