| Glenn Seaborg  AKA Glenn Theodore Seaborg
Born: 19-Apr-1912
Birthplace: Ishpeming, MI
Died: 25-Feb-1999
Location of death: Lafayette, CA
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Co-Discoverer of Plutonium Father: Herman Theodore Seaborg
Mother: Selma Ericksburg (b. Sweden)
Sister: Jeanette (younger)
Wife: Helen L. Griggs (m. 6-Jun-1942, four sons, two daughters)
Son: Peter Glenn (b. 31-May-1946, d. 1997)
Daughter: Lynne Seaborg Cobb (b. 6-Sep-1947)
Son: David Michael (b. 22-Apr-1949)
Son: Stepehn Keith (b. 14-Aug-1951)
Son: John Eric (b. 17-Nov-1954)
Daughter: Dianne Karole (b. 20-Nov-1959)
University: AB Chemistry, University of California at Los Angeles (1934)
University: PhD Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley (1937)
Professor: Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley (1939-71)
Administrator: Section Chief, Metallurgical Lab, University of Chicago (1942-46)
Administrator: Chancellor, University of California at Berkeley (1958-61)
US Atomic Energy Commission Chairman (1961-71)
Alpha Chi Sigma Chemistry Fraternity
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Chemical Society President
American Nuclear Society
American Philosophical Society 1952
Bohemian Grove
CSICOP
Commonwealth Club of California
National Academy of Sciences 1948
Phi Beta Kappa Society
Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellow (1959)
Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society
Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1951 (with Edwin M. McMillan)
Enrico Fermi Award 1959
Priestley Medal 1979
Vannevar Bush Award 1988
National Medal of Science 1991
Manhattan Project
Chemical Element Namesake seaborgium (Sg, 106)
Swedish Ancestry
Author of books:
A Chemist in the White House: From the Manhattan Project to the End of the Cold War (1998, memoir)
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