(1912–99), American nuclear chemist; full name Glenn Theodore Seaborg. During 1940–58 Seaborg and his colleagues produced nine of the transuranic elements (plutonium to nobelium) in a cyclotron. Seaborg and his early collaborator Edwin McMillan (1907–91) shared the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1951.
Definition of Seaborg, Glenn in US English:
Seaborg, Glenn
proper nounˈsēˌbôrɡ
(1912–99), US nuclear chemist; full name Glenn Theodore Seaborg. During 1940–58, he and his colleagues produced nine of the transuranic elements (plutonium to nobelium) in a cyclotron. He shared the 1951 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with Edwin McMillan (1907–91).