Glenn T. Seaborg
Chemist, Academic
1912 – 1999
Who was Glenn T. Seaborg?
Glenn Theodore Seaborg was an American scientist whose involvement in the synthesis, discovery and investigation of ten transuranium elements earned him a share of the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. His work in this area also led to his development of the actinide concept and the arrangement of the actinide series in the periodic table of the elements.
Seaborg spent most of his career as an educator and research scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, serving as a professor, and, between 1958 and 1961, as the university's second chancellor. He advised ten US Presidents – from Harry S. Truman to Bill Clinton – on nuclear policy and was Chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Commission from 1961 to 1971, where he pushed for commercial nuclear energy and the peaceful applications of nuclear science. Throughout his career, Seaborg worked for arms control. He was a signatory to the Franck Report and contributed to the Limited Test Ban Treaty, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. He was a well-known advocate of science education and federal funding for pure research. Toward the end of the Eisenhower administration, he was the principal author of the Seaborg Report on academic science, and, as a member of President Ronald Reagan's National Commission on Excellence in Education, he was a key contributor to its 1983 report "A Nation at Risk".
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- Born
- Apr 19, 1912
Ishpeming - Also known as
- Glenn Theodore Seaborg
- Spouses
- Helen L. Seaborg
(1942 - )
- Helen L. Seaborg
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of California, Berkeley
- David Starr Jordan High School
- Employment
- University of California, Berkeley
- Lived in
- United States of America
- Died
- Feb 25, 1999
Lafayette
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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