Edwin McMillan
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Edwin McMillan
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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. A graduate of California Institute of Technology, he earned his doctorate from Princeton University in 1933, and joined the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory where he discovered oxygen-15 and beryllium-10. During World War II, he worked on microwave radar at the MIT Radiation Laboratory, and then on son
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American physicist (1907–1991)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_McMillan
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2002-01-15T15:31:20Z
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2024-09-07T10:06:52Z
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