Seaborg
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1. Seaborg - Noun
2. Seaborg - Proper noun
Meaning
United States chemist who was one of the discoverers of plutonium (1912-1999)
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Despite strict rules from the Soviets about photography at the signing ceremony, Seaborg sneaked a tiny camera past the Soviet guards to take a close-up photograph of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev as he signed the treaty.
His patent on curium never proved commercially viable because of the element's short half-life, but americium is commonly used in household smoke detectors and thus provided a good source of royalty income to Seaborg in later years.
For several years, Seaborg conducted important research in artificial radioactivity using the Lawrence cyclotron at UC Berkeley.
History Glenn T. Seaborg The convert cyclotron at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, in August 1939.
However, it was necessary to upgrade the cyclotron to obtain the needed intensity of 10 14 alpha particles per second; Seaborg applied for the necessary funds.
As Seaborg considered he did not then have a career to bring into disrepute, he published anyway.