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Glenn Seaborg was 86-years-old at his death. This is a timeline of his life.
- 1912 -- Born in Ishpeming, Michigan (April 19)
- 1922 -- Moves to Southgate, California
- 1934 -- Graduates (B.A.) from UC Los Angeles
Starts working at the UC Radiation Laboratory (forerunner to Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory)
- 1937 -- Earns Ph.D. from UC Berkeley
- 1939 -- Joins UC Berkeley’s chemistry faculty
- 1940 -- Begins collaboration with E. M. McMillan
- 1941 -- Identifies plutonium
- 1942 -- Joins Manhattan Project
Marries Helen Lucille Griggs
- 1944 -- Identifies americium, which is used in smoke detectors
Develops actinide concept
- 1945 -- Named professor of chemistry at UC Berkeley
- 1951 -- Shares Nobel Prize in chemistry with E. M. McMillan for the discovery of
transuranium elements
- 1954 -- Becomes associate director of the UC Radiation Laboratory
- 1958 -- Named second chancellor of UC Berkeley (1958-1961)
- 1961 -- Appointed chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (1961-1971)
- 1963 -- Limited Test Ban Treaty, which prohibited the testing of nuclear weapons in the
atmosphere and under the sea signed. Seaborg had led the treaty negotiations and witnessed
its signing in Moscow.
- 1971 -- Returns to Berkeley and resumes teaching duties at UC Berkeley
- 1974 -- Element 106, later named seaborgium, is identified
- 1982 -- Appointed director of UC Berkeley’s Lawrence Hall of Science (1982-1984)
- 1983 -- Co-authors the landmark "A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational
Reform" report as a member of President Reagan’s National Commission on
Excellence in Education
- 1984 -- Becomes chairman of the Lawrence Hall of Science
- 1991 -- Receives the National Medal of Science
- 1995 -- Presents the first Seaborg Award to a Berkeley football player who excelled in
his career
- 1997 -- Element 106 is officially named seaborgium
- 1998 -- UC Berkeley establishes an "endowed chair" in Seaborg’s honor;
Berkeley Lab’s Alex Pines is named its first holder.
- 1999 -- Dies at the age of 86 on February 25
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