McMillan, Edwin Mattison

McMillan, Edwin Mattison (1907-1991) American Physicist Edwin Mattison McMillan was born on September 18, 1907, at Redondo Beach, California, the son of Dr. Edwin Harbaugh McMillan, a physician, and Anne Marie McMillan (nee Mattison). He spent his early years in Pasadena, California, obtaining his education. 

McMillan, Edwin Mattison (1907-91) American physicist who, with Philip Abelson, produced the first human-made element, neptunium (atomic number 93). The two men won the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1951. 

M Edwin Mattison McMillan (1907- M 1991 Nobel Prize for chemistry 1951), together with Arthur C. Wahl and Joseph W. Kennedy. Bombardment of 238U with cyclotron-accelerated deuterons gave rise to the isotope 238Pu after some intermediates. 

American chemist Glenn Thecxdore Seaborg, corecipient with Edwin Mattison McMillan of the 1951 Nobel Prize in chemistry, for their discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements. Here, Seaborg holds a container of samples of the radioactive elements 94 through 102. 

In 1940, however, the American physicist Edwin Mattison McMillan (1907- ) and Ms colleague,... 

Edwin Mattison McMillan and Glenn Theodore Seaborg (both United States) for their discoveries in the chemistry of transuranium elements. All the way back in 1934, Fermi discovered that heavier elements could be created by bombarding... 

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