Autor: Glenn T. Seaborg

WALTER D. LOVELAND, Ph D, is a professor of chemistry at Oregon State University, USA. DAVID J. MORRISSEY, Ph D, is a professor of chemistry and associate director of the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at Michigan State University, USA. GLENN T. SEABORG, Ph D (deceased), was a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, and cofounder and chairman of the Lawrence Hall of Science, USA. He is credited with discovering 10 new elements, including plutonium and one that now bears his name, seaborgium. In 1951, Dr. Seaborg and his colleague, Edwin Mc Millan, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for research into transuranium elements.