| Glenn Seaborg  AKA Glenn Theodore Seaborg
Born: 19-Apr-1912
Birthplace: Ishpeming, MI
Died: 25-Feb-1999
Location of death: Lafayette, CA
Cause of death: Stroke
Remains: Cremated (ashes in family's possession)
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Co-Discoverer of Plutonium American physicist Glenn Seaborg led the research team that discovered plutonium in 1940, and in 1941 isolated Uranium-233. He oversaw plutonium manufacturing and enrichment research for the Manhattan Project, culminating in the development of atomic weapons. Seaborg and his colleagues also discovered americium, berkelium, californium, curium, einsteinium, fermium, mendelevium, and nobelium, and identified more than 100 element isotopes throughout the periodic table. He shared the 1951 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with Edwin M. McMillan, and he is the namesake of seaborgium, discovered in 1974 by Albert Ghiorso. In 1963 he served as a key scientific and diplomatic negotiator in work that led to the Limited Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty (1963), which limited the testing of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere and under the sea, and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (1968), which limited the spread of nuclear weapons technology. His wife, Helen Griggs, was the secretary to Nobel laureate Ernest Lawrence. Father: Herman Theodore Seaborg
Mother: Selma Ericksburg (b. Sweden)
Sister: Jeanette (younger)
Wife: Helen Lucille Griggs (m. 6-Jun-1942, four sons, two daughters)
Son: Peter Glenn (b. 31-May-1946, d. 1997)
Daughter: Lynne Seaborg Cobb (b. 6-Sep-1947)
Son: David Michael (evolutionary biologist, b. 22-Apr-1949)
Son: Stephen Keith (b. 14-Aug-1951)
Son: John Eric (b. 17-Nov-1954)
Daughter: Dianne Karole (b. 20-Nov-1959)
High School: Jordan High School, Los Angeles, CA (1929)
University: BA Chemistry, University of California at Los Angeles (1934)
University: PhD Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley (1937)
Teacher: Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley (1939-45)
Administrator: Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley (1945-71)
Administrator: Section Chief, Metallurgical Lab, University of Chicago (1942-46)
Administrator: Chancellor, University of California at Berkeley (1958-61)
Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1951 (with Edwin M. McMillan)
John Scott Medal 1953
Perkin Medal 1957
Enrico Fermi Award 1959
Benjamin Franklin Medal 1963 (by the Franklin Institute)
Priestley Medal 1979
Henry DeWolf Smyth Award 1982
Vannevar Bush Award 1988
National Medal of Science 1991
US Atomic Energy Commission General Advisory Committee (1946-50)
US Atomic Energy Commission Chairman (1961-71)
Alpha Chi Sigma Chemistry Fraternity
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Chemical Society President
American Institute of Chemists
American Nuclear Society
American Philosophical Society 1952
American Physical Society
Bohemian Grove
California Academy of Sciences
CSICOP
Commonwealth Club of California
National Academy of Sciences 1948
New York Academy of Sciences
Phi Beta Kappa Society
Royal Society of Arts
Royal Society of Chemistry
Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellow (1959)
Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society
ASC Award in Pure Chemistry 1947
John Ericsson Medal 1948
Nichols Medal 1948
Manhattan Project 1942-46
Stroke 24-Aug-1998
Swedish Ancestry
Chemical Element Namesake seaborgium (Sg, 106)
Author of books:
The Plutonium Story (1994, journals)
A Scientist Speaks Out: A Personal Perspective on Science, Society and Change (1996, essays)
A Chemist in the White House: From the Manhattan Project to the End of the Cold War (1998, memoir)
Adventures in the Atomic Age: From Watts to Washington (2001, memoir, posthumous)
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