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MCMILLAN, Edwin Mattison (1907 – 1991)

MCMILLAN, Edwin Mattison (1907 – 1991)

1907 – 1991

2 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1945 CE

#2659.4

The synchrotron: a proposed high energy particle accelerator.

MCMILLAN, Edwin Mattison (1907 – 1991)
MCMILLAN, Edwin Mattison (1907 – 1991)

In 1951 McMillan shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Glenn Theodore Seaborg "for their discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements."

1946 CE

#14317

Radioactive Element 94 from deuterons on uranium.

MCMILLAN, Edwin Mattison (1907 – 1991)
MCMILLAN, Edwin Mattison (1907 – 1991)
SEABORG, Glenn Theodore (1912 – 1999)
SEABORG, Glenn Theodore (1912 – 1999)
KENNEDY, Joseph William (1916 – 1957)
KENNEDY, Joseph William (1916 – 1957)
WAHL, A. C.
WAHL, A. C.

"This letter was received for publication on the date indicated (January 28, 1941), but was voluntarily withheld from publication until the end of the war." Seaborg and McMillan discovered element 94, which they named…