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Glenn Seaborg (1912 - 1999)
He is best known for discovering the element plutonium, with Edwin McMillan. He led the team that devised the chemical process for extraction of plutonium.
Seaborg served as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission from 1961 until 1971.
He and McMillan shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for research into transuranic elements.
