Edwin McMillan

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

American physicist (1907-1991)

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Edwin McMillan was an American physicist who lived from 1907 to 1991 and made important contributions to nuclear physics. He is best known for his work in discovering new elements and developing the cyclotron, a machine that accelerates particles and is fundamental to modern physics research.

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Commons category: Edwin McMillan
date of birth: 1907-00-00
date of death: 1991-00-00
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birth name: Edwin Mattison McMillan

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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.