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Edwin McMillan

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Also known as E. M. McMillan, Edwin M. McMillan, Edwin Mattison McMillan

American physicist (1907-1991)

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Edwin Mattison McMillan was an American physicist and university teacher who worked in the field of physics. Born in Redondo Beach in 1907, he died in El Cerrito in 1991. He was educated at the California Institute of Technology and Princeton University, where he was a student of Edward Condon. McMillan served as a university teacher and was employed by the University of California, Berkeley. He also participated in the Manhattan Project.

McMillan received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the Atoms for Peace Award, and the National Medal of Science. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physics. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Physical Society. He spoke and wrote in English.

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Chemistry1951

    “for their discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements”

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Instance of
human
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Redondo Beach
Place of death
El Cerrito
Occupation
university teacher
Educated at
Princeton University
Employer
University of California, Berkeley
Languages spoken
English language
Participant in
Manhattan Project
Doctoral advisor
Edward Condon
Student of
Edward Condon
Field of work
physics
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Edwin McMillan
date of birth
1907-00-00
date of death
1991-00-00
member of
American Physical Society
Erdős number
4
nominated for
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
birth name
Edwin Mattison McMillan
writing language
English language
cause of death
complications of diabetes mellitus
manner of death
natural causes
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interested in
chemistry
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Encyclopedic overview

Edwin Mattison McMillan (September 18, 1907 – September 7, 1991) 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 sonar at the Navy Radio and Sound Laboratory. In 1942 he joined the Manhattan Project, the wartime effort to create atomic bombs, and helped establish its Los Alamos Laboratory where the bombs were designed. He led teams working on the gun-type nuclear weapon design, and also participated in the development of the implosion-type nuclear weapon.

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