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=Glenn Theodore Seaborg=

== Glenn Theodore Seaborg was born in Michigan on April 19, 1912. Seaborg attended David Starr Jordan high school and graduated as valedictorian. Then he moved on to UCLA where he earned a Ph.D. in chemistry. He went on to co-discover plutonium and all and all transuranium elements through element 102. He also helped identify more than 100 different isotopes throughout the periodic table. == == He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discoveries in the chemistry of transuranium elements. He developed the actinide concept, which led to the actinide series in the periodic table. Seaborg advised Presidents from Truman through Clinton on nuclear policy. He also contributed in the Manhattan Project by separating, concentrating, and isolating plutonium. ==

After World War II he returned to California to help the academic world. Then JFK appointed him to the Atomic Energy Commission as Chairman.
== Transuranium elements were Seaborg's greatest contribution to chemistry. These are the elements with atomic numbers greater than 92. All of these elements are unstable. They decay radioactively into other elements. All elements are radioactive with a half-life much shorter than the age of the Earth. So all of these elements have long since decayed. Some are found in uranium rich rock or are produced by atmospheric tests of nuclear weapons. ==

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