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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 45. Chapters: Irving Langmuir, Glenn T. Seaborg, William Henry Perkin, Thomas Midgley, Jr., Edwin H. Land, Elmer Keiser Bolton, Miguel Ondetti, Roger Adams, Carl Djerassi, Charles F. Chandler, Herbert Henry Dow, Leo Baekeland, James Franklin Hyde, David R. Bryant, Stephanie Kwolek, Paul Flory, Herman Francis Mark, Charles Martin Hall, Donald Othmer, Gordon Moore, Herbert C. Brown, Edward Weston, Edward Goodrich Acheson, William Justin Kroll, Herman Frasch, Warren K. Lewis, Willis R. Whitney, Herbert Boyer, Carl Shipp Marvel, Richard Bruce Silverman, John Wesley Hyatt, Ronald Breslow, Charles Allen Thomas, Milton Harris, Manson Benedict, Robert R. Williams, Robert Banks, Frederick Gardner Cottrell, Lubomyr Romankiw, William Merriam Burton, J. Paul Hogan, Karl August Folkers, Charles Stine, Lewis Hastings Sarett, John V. N. Dorr, John E. Teeple, Robert W. Gore, William O. Baker, George O. Curme, Jr., Eger V. Murphree, George Oenslager, Edith M. Flanigen, Paul S. Anderson, James C. Stevens. Excerpt: Glenn Theodore Seaborg (Swedish: April 19, 1912 - February 25, 1999) was an American scientist who won the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements," contributed to the discovery and isolation of ten elements, and developed the actinide concept, which led to the current arrangement of the actinoid series in the periodic table of the elements. He spent most of his career as an educator and research scientist at the University of California, Berkeley where he became the second Chancellor in its history and served as a University Professor. Seaborg advised ten presidents from Harry S. Truman to Bill Clinton on nuclear policy and was the chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Commission from 1961 to 1971 where he pushed for commercial nuclear energy and peaceful applications of nucle...
