1951+Glenn+T.+Seaborg

 1929-1999 Glenn T. Seaborg By: Selena Luhrsen 

Seaborg was born on April 19th, 1912. He was born in Ishpeming, Michigan. He had to work his way through college. He worked as a fruit packer and laboratory assistant. He studied plutonium. He identified the following elements: berkelium, californium, einsteinium, fermium, mendelevium, nobelium. He got a Nobel Prize for his discovery of plutonium in 1951. It has not yet been proven incorrect. He grew up poor. He graduated from the University of California in 1934. President John Kennedy appointed him as chairman of Atomic Energy Commission. His discovery was excepted not rejected. Resources- Spartacus [] Nobelprize __ http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1951/index.html __