The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1951
Awarded on: 1951-11-15
"for their discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements"
Affiliations:
- University of California – Berkeley, CA, USA
Edwin Mattison McMillan
Born: 1907-09-18 in Redondo Beach, CA, USA
Gender: male
Field: American physicist (1907–1991)
Biography
Edwin Mattison McMillan 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.