Glen+Seaborg

﻿Glenn Theodore Seaborg was born in Ishpeming, Michigan in 1912. He was the oldest of only two siblings. When Seaborg was 10 years of age he moved near Los Angeles, California. Since he father could never find permanent jobs Glenn worked for his own wage as a paper boy or lawn mower. In opposition to the infamous Dmitri Mendeleev, Seaborg graduated high school as valedictorian and also with a special interest in chemistry. He attended the University of California, Los Angeles. Seaborg majored in chemistry there and also attended a fifth year, during which he took only physics classes. He decided to then travel to the University of California at Berkeley to finish his graduate work.

- During WWII Seaborg was petitioned to move to Chicago. He was to aid in the purification of plutonium of the Manhattan project that hoped to develope an atomic bomb. In doing so, Glenn and his co-workers founded elements 95-102. These elements were, at first nonexistant due to their heavy-electron structure, however Seaborg discovered a way to make these elements to fit the table, labeled the actinides. This discovery prompted a new periodic table in 1945. -  Once back home in Berkely, after the war, Seaborg continued work as a profesor. In 1949-1950, Glenn and his co-workers founder two more elements, berkelium (97) and californium (98). This discovery along with many others lead to Seaborg and McMillian's winning of the Nobel Prize in 1951. At this time Glenn was only 39 years of age and still to this day is the youngest winner of this honor. Soon after his award he and his co-workers again founded many more elements. This time, eistenium (99) and fermium (100), along with mendelevium (101) in 1956 and nobelium (102) in 1958. Throughout all of which, Seaborg remains to this day a scientific icon. - "Google" "The National"