| Edwin M. McMillan  AKA Edwin Mattison McMillan
Born: 18-Sep-1907
Birthplace: Redondo Beach, CA
Died: 7-Sep-1991
Location of death: El Cerrito, CA
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Discovered neptunium Father: Dr. Edwin Harbaugh McMillan (physician)
Mother: Anne Marie Mattison
Wife: Elsie Walford Blumer (one daughter, two sons)
Daughter: Ann Bradford (b. 1943)
Son: David Mattison (b. 1945)
Son: Stephen Walker (b. 1949)
University: BS, California Institute of Technology (1928)
University: MS, California Institute of Technology (1929)
University: PhD, Princeton University (1932)
Scholar: Research Fellow, University of California at Berkeley (1932-35)
Professor: University of California at Berkeley (1935-73)
Manhattan Project 1942-45
Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1951 (with Glenn Seaborg)
American Physical Society
American Philosophical Society
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
National Academy of Sciences Chairman, 1968-71
English Ancestry
Scottish Ancestry
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