Edwin McMillan
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 34 years ago |
| Date of birth | September 18,1907 |
| Zodiac sign | Virgo |
| Date of died | September 7,1991 |
| Died | El Cerrito |
| California | |
| United States | |
| Field | Chemistry |
| Discovered | Plutonium |
| Neptunium | |
| Job | Physicist |
| Chemist | |
| Education | Pasadena High School |
| Princeton University | |
| California Institute of Technology | |
| Awards | National Medal of Science for Physical Science |
| Atoms for Peace Award | |
| Nobel Prize in Chemistry | |
| Born | Redondo Beach |
| California | |
| United States | |
| Notable student | A. Carl Helmholz |
| Books | Lecture series in nuclear physics |
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| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 552080 |
Edwin McMillan Life story
Edwin Mattison McMillan was an American physicist credited with being the first-ever to produce a transuranium element, neptunium. For this, he shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Glenn Seaborg.