Remarks and interview on 25th anniversary of plutonium's discovery [sound recording] / 1966 March.

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Remarks and interview on 25th anniversary of plutonium's discovery [sound recording] / 1966 March.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82798016

Recorded from Atomic Energy Commission radio news tapes for the 25th anniversary of plutonium's discovery. Includes introductory remarks by Dr. Glenn Seaborg, an interview with Dr. Seaborg and Dr. Edwin McMillan. McMillan describes his discovery of neptunium and Seaborg describes his discovery of plutonium and naming it.

1 sound tape reel (20 min) : 7 1/2 ips, analog, mono. ; 5 in.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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American Institute of Physics

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Physicist. High Energy Radiation Section, National Bureau of Standards, 1949-1962; Chief, Radiation Physics Division, 1962-1966; Director, American Institute of Physics, 1966-1986. From the description of The story of the American Institute of Physics, 1967-1987. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 154305950 The American Institute of Physics (AIP) is a not-for-profit membership corporation chartered in New York State in 1931 for the purpose of promoting the advancement and diffus...

McMillan, Edwin M. (Edwin Mattison), 1907-

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Physicist. Professor of physics, University of California at Berkeley, 1934-1973; and staff member of Lawrence Radiation Laboratory (renamed the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in 1971), 1934-1971, and its director from 1958-1973. Pioneer in development and application of the cyclotron. Died in 1991. From the description of Travel diary kept during the California Institute of Technology Travel Prize Trip across the United States and Europe, 1927. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83660405 ...

Seaborg, Glenn Theodore 1912-

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Seaborg was born on Apr. 19, 1912 in Ishpeming, MI; AB, UCLA, 1934; Ph. D, UC Berkeley, 1937; research assoc. (1937-39), instructor (1939-41), asst. professor (1941-45), prof. of chemistry (1945-71), univ. professor beginning in 1971, UC Berkeley; director of plutonium work for Manhattan Project at Univ. of Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory (1942-46); head of Nuclear Chemistry Division (1946-58 and 1971-75), and assoc. director of laboratory, 1954-61 and again beginning in 1971, Lawrence Berkeley...