Historical Bibliography Updated: June 16, 2026
Radioactive Element 94 from deuterons on uranium.
Publication Details
Phys. Rev., 69, 366-367. 1946 CE.
"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 plutonium. In 1951 Seaborg and McMillan shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for their discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements."
Order of authorship in the original publication: Seaborg, McMillan, Kennedy, Wahl.
(Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)
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