Edwin Mattison Mcmillan
1907-1991
American physicist who co-discovered the first transuranium element, neptunium. McMillan was director of the radiation facility at the University of California, Berke...
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Edwin M. McMillan's first important discovery was made in 1940 when he, Philip Abelson, and Glenn T. Seaborg produced and identified samples of transuranium elements , later named neptunium and pluton...
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Edwin M. McMillan's first important discovery was made in 1940 when he, Philip Abelson, and Glenn T. Seaborg (1912-1999)produced and identified samples of transuranium elements , later named neptunium...
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McMillan was born in Redondo Beach, California, on September 18, 1907. He earned his bachelor's degree (1928) and master's degree (1929) at the California Institute of Technology and his doctorate in ...
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Edwin McMillan was born in Redondo Beach, California, on September 18, 1907. He received his bachelors degree in physics in 1928 and his masters degree the following year, both from the California Ins...
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