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  1. Edwin McMillan. Edwin Mattison McMillan (September 18, 1907 – September 7, 1991) was an American physicist credited with being the first to produce a transuranium element, neptunium. For this, he shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Glenn Seaborg . A graduate of California Institute of Technology, he earned his doctorate from ...

  2. Mar 25, 2024 · Edwin Mattison McMillan was an American nuclear physicist who shared the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1951 with Glenn T. Seaborg for his discovery of element 93, neptunium, the first element heavier than uranium, thus called a transuranium element.

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  3. Edwin Mattison McMillan was born on 18th September, 1907, at Redondo Beach, California. He is the son of Dr. Edwin Harbaugh McMillan, a physician, and his wife, Anne Marie McMillan, née Mattison, who both came from the State of Maryland and were both of English and Scottish descent. The boy spent his early years in Pasadena, California, and ...

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  5. Edwin McMillan became director of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory when E. O. Lawrence died in 1958. Edwin Mattison McMillan is the son of Dr. Edwin Harbaugh McMillan, a physician, and Anna Marie (Mattison) McMillan, both from the state of Maryland and both of Scotch and English descent. He was born on September 18, 1907, in Redondo Beach ...

  6. The son of Edwin H. McMillan and Anna Maria Mattison, Edwin M. McMillan was born on September 18, 1907, in Redondo Beach, California; both parents were Scots. He was brought up in Pasadena, California, beyond age one and a half. His father was a physician, as were the parents of his wife Elsie McMillan (born Blumer), who incidentally

  7. Learn about Edwin McMillan, an American physicist who discovered neptunium and plutonium and won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. See his timeline, photos, and contributions to the Manhattan Project and the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory.

  8. Sep 9, 1991 · Edwin Mattison McMillan, a pioneer in modern chemistry and physics who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1951 as a co-discoverer of plutonium and neptunium, died Saturday at his home in El ...

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