“I DISCOVER elements,” Glenn Theodore Seaborg once told an interviewer. And he certainly does: in less than 20 years. Chemist Seaborg shared in the discovery of nine new elements, all of them in the ...

It’s been 77 years since nuclear chemist Glenn T. Seaborg grouped and named the actinides —the 15 metallic elements on the periodic table with atomic numbers from 89-103, actinium through lawrencium.

Carolyn Krause concludes her series looking at Stan Thompson, Glenn Seaborg, and Alvin Weinberg with this look at the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment. She enlisted the help of Ronnie Bogard, the ...

Oak Ridge National Laboratory has an intriguing relationship with promethium-147. First known as element 61 in the periodic table, it was declared “missing” in 1913 based on measurements by a ...

A consensus All-America linebacker 43 years ago and involved with the university in some capacity ever since, Cal football general manager Ron Rivera has been given another honor: the 2025 Glenn ...

For chemists who work in heavy-element synthesis, discovering a new element can be the highlight of a scientific career. Kenton J. Moody, a staff chemist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, ...

The September 20, 1964 Chicago Tribune ran an article about Glenn T. Seaborg’s predictions for the futuristic year of 1989. An excerpt appears below. In another 25 years, [Seaborg] speculates, ...

Creating new heavy elements is a faint bit like working a pinball machine; it takes a nice judgment of speed. Last week a group of University of California scientists led by Professor Glenn Seaborg ...

In 1960, Dr. Glenn Seaborg, then-chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, confidently predicted that nuclear energy would power half of American homes by the year 2000. For a while, it looked ...

Richard G. Haire, a corporate fellow emeritus of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), has spent four decades probing multiple science aspects of the 4f- and 5f-electron elements, concentrating ...