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DIED. GLENN SEABORG, 86, former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and Nobel prizewinner; in Lafayette, Calif. Seaborg began his career in the 1930s in Berkeley. He led the research team that discovered plutonium and was the first living person to have an element, seaborgium, named for him. After helping build the Bomb on the Manhattan Project, Seaborg championed the peaceful use of atomic energy...
...GLENN SEABORG...
...Glenn T. Seaborg, LL.D., nuclear chemist...
...75th anniversary of the first Nobel awards ceremony. The Nobel committee invited all past winners of the heavy gold medal to Stockholm. Of the 80 who made it to the ceremonies, 32 were from the U.S. Among those present: Albert Szent-Györgyi, 82 (Medicine, 1937) and Glenn Seaborg, 63 (Chemistry, 1951). The uniquely distinguished group was put through a tight schedule of formal receptions, sightseeing and museum visits. Mostly, though, the scholars wanted to exchange scientific gossip and give lectures on their specialties. "It's beautiful-terrific!" said the U.S.'s Gerald M. Edelman, joint winner...
...Some of the other most recognizable scientists: Jonas Salk, Wernher von Braun, William Shockley, Edward Teller, Rene Dubos, Glenn Seaborg, Carl Sagan...