Edwin McMillan
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 33 years ago |
Date of birth | September 18,1907 |
Zodiac sign | Virgo |
Date of died | September 7,1991 |
Died | El Cerrito |
California | |
United States | |
Field | Chemistry |
Discovered | Plutonium |
Neptunium | |
Job | Physicist |
Chemist | |
Education | Pasadena High School |
Princeton University | |
California Institute of Technology | |
Awards | National Medal of Science for Physical Science |
Atoms for Peace Award | |
Nobel Prize in Chemistry | |
Born | Redondo Beach |
California | |
United States | |
Notable student | A. Carl Helmholz |
Books | Lecture series in nuclear physics |
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ID | 552080 |
Edwin McMillan Life story
Edwin Mattison McMillan was an American physicist credited with being the first-ever to produce a transuranium element, neptunium. For this, he shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Glenn Seaborg.