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Edwin McMillan
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.
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science · American physicist (1907–1991) · physicist · university teacher · also Edwin McMillan, E. M. McMillan, Edwin M. McMillan, Edwin Mattison McMillan, McMillan
Born 18 September 1907 · Died 7 September 1991 · Q19009
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2016· 1 entry
Published “The<i>Gaia</i>mission” in Astronomy & Astrophysics — cited 6,433 times.
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2010· 1 entry
Published “THE WIDE-FIELD INFRARED SURVEY EXPLORER (WISE): MISSION DESCRIPTION AND INITIAL ON-ORBIT PERFORMANCE” in The Astronomical Journal — cited 7,238 times.
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1991· 1 entry
Died 1991-09-07.
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1990· 1 entry
Won National Medal of Science (1990).
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1974· 1 entry
Spent 1974–75 at CERN, where he worked on the g minus 2 experiment to measure the magnetic moment of the muon
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1970· 1 entry
It split into the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, and McMillan became director of the former
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1968· 1 entry
Published “Transition Temperature of Strong-Coupled Superconductors” in Physical Review — cited 5,514 times.
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1964· 2 entries
Won Golden Plate Award (1964).
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McMillan received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement
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1963· 1 entry
Shared the Atoms for Peace Award for the invention of the synchrotron
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1954· 1 entry
Was appointed associate director of the Radiation Laboratory
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1951· 4 entries
The Transuranium Elements: Early History
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for their discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1951).
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McMillan shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Seaborg "for their discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements"
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1947· 2 entries
Serving as its chairman from 1968 to 1971
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Applied for a patent for was called the synchrocyclotron, for which he was awarded the patent in 1952
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1945· 2 entries
Was present at the Trinity nuclear test, when the first implosion bomb was successfully detonated
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Led to the classification of the actinide series
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1944· 1 entry
And Parsons's E (Explosives) Division was divided in two, with McMillan as deputy for the gun and Kistiakowsky as deputy for implosion
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1942· 1 entry
Joined the Manhattan Project, the wartime effort to create atomic bombs, and helped establish its Los Alamos Laboratory where the bombs were designed
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1939· 1 entry
McMillan began experimenting with uranium
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1935· 1 entry
McMillan, Lawrence and Robert Thornton carried out cyclotron experiments with deuteron beams that produced a series of unexpected results
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1933· 2 entries
Writing his thesis on the "Deflection of a Beam of HCI Molecules in a Non-Homogeneous Electric Field" under the supervision of Edward Condon
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And joined the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory where he discovered oxygen-15 and beryllium-10
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1932· 1 entry
McMillan was awarded a National Research Council fellowship, allowing him to attend a university of his choice for postdoctoral study
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1928· 1 entry
And his Master of Science degree in 1929, writing an unpublished thesis on "An improved method for the determination of the radium content of rocks"
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1908· 1 entry
The family moved to Pasadena, California, where he attended McKinley Elementary School from 1913 to 1918, Grant School from 1918 to 1920, and then Pasadena High School, from which he graduated in 1924
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1907· 2 entries
The son of Edwin Harbaugh McMillan and his wife Anna Marie McMillan née Mattison
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Born 1907-09-18.
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