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- Dr. Seaborg had a small trail cleared trough the forest, where he then began bringing his colleagues and business partners along during his daily hikes; they would walk, talk business, and enjoy nature's beauty, all at once. AEC and DOE employees have referred to the Trail ever since, as the "Glenn Seaborg Trail."
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He frequently invited colleagues and visitors to accompany him, and the trail became known as the "Glenn Seaborg Trail." He and his wife Helen are credited with blazing a 12-mile (19 km) trail in the East Bay area near their home in Lafayette, California.
A portion of the Glenn Seaborg Trail (looking southerly) that runs through the forest. This central portion of the trail is a low spot blanketed with a lush bed of New York ferns and Christmas ferns, giving the area a very verdant appearance and a feeling of tranquility.
The Glenn Seaborg Trail. The map shows the Glenn Seaborg Trail and forest in relation to the site boundary to the east, the pond to the north, and Interstate 270 to the northeast. For a virtual walk on the Trail, mouse-over the red squares on the map to view a picture; click for
Aspects of the Natural History of the Forest Along the Glenn Seaborg Trail . Glenn T. Seaborg, Nobel Laureate and AEC Chairman from 1961 to 1971, blazed the trail that today bears his name. An avid hiker, he often walked on the trail with friends and associates.
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He took his doctorate in chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1937, with a thesis on the inelastic scattering of neutrons in which he coined the term "nuclear spallation." He was a member of the professional chemistry fraternity Alpha Chi Sigma. As a graduate student in the 1920s, Seaborg performed wet chemistry research for his ...
Pioneering work in nuclear chemistry
Seaborg remained at the University of California, Berkeley for post-doctoral research. He followed Frederick Soddy's work investigating isotopes and contributed to the discovery of more than 100 isotopes of elements. Using one of Lawrence's advanced cyclotrons, John Livingood, Fred Fairbrother, and Seaborg created a new isotope of iron, iron-59 (Fe-59) in 1937. Iron-59 was useful in the studies of the hemoglobin in human blood. In 1938, Livingood and Seaborg collaborated to create an importan...
Scientific contributions during the Manhattan Project
On April 19, 1942, Seaborg reached Chicago, and joined up with the chemistry group at the Metallurgical Laboratory of the Manhattan Project at the University of Chicago, where Enrico Fermi and his group would later convert U238 to plutonium in the world's first controlled nuclear chain reaction using a chain-reacting pile. Seaborg's role was to figure out how to extract the tiny bit of plutonium from the mass of uranium. Plutonium-239 was isolated in visible amounts using a transmutation reac...
Professor and Chancellor at UC Berkeley
After the conclusion of World War II and the Manhattan Project, Seaborg was eager to return to academic life and university research free from the restrictions of wartime secrecy. In 1946, he added to his responsibilities as a professor by heading the nuclear chemistry research at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory operated by the University of California on behalf of the United States Atomic Energy Commission. Seaborg was named one of the "Ten Outstanding Young Men in America" by the U.S. Jun...
In 1942, Seaborg married Helen Griggs, the secretary of Ernest Lawrence. Under wartime pressure, Seaborg had moved to Chicago while engaged to Griggs. When Seaborg returned to accompany Griggs for the journey back to Chicago, friends expected them to marry in Chicago. But, eager to be married, Seaborg and Griggs impulsively got off the train in the...
The element seaborgium was named after Seaborg by Albert Ghiorso and others, who also credited Seaborg as a co-discoverer. It was so named while Seaborg was still alive, which proved extremely controversial. He influenced the naming of so many elements that with the announcement of Seaborgium, it was noted in Discover magazine's review of the year ...
Seaborg was the principal or co-discoverer of the following elements: plutonium, americium, curium, berkelium, californium, einsteinium, fermium, mendelevium, nobelium, and Element 106, which was named seaborgium in his honor while he was still living. He also developed more than 100 atomic isotopes, and is credited with important contributions to ...
Considine, Glenn, ed., Van Nostrand's Scientific Encyclopedia, 9th ed., New York: Wiley Interscience, 2002. ISBN 0471332305Farmer, Delphine, "An Elementary Problem." Berkeley Science Review1 (1) (2001)Jackson, David J. and W. K. H. Panofsky. Biographical Memoirs: Edwin Mattison McMillan.National Academies Press.Rhodes, Richard. The Making of the Atomic Bomb. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986. ISBN 0684813785Feb 25, 1999 · After initial contributions by Edwin McMillan, Glenn Seaborg succeeded in 1940 in creating an element with an atomic number of 94, which was named plutonium. This new substance became significant for both nuclear weapons and nuclear energy.
Feb 25, 1999 · The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1951 was awarded jointly to Edwin Mattison McMillan and Glenn Theodore Seaborg "for their discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements"
