Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1951

Edwin Mattison McMillan

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Prize share: 1/2

Glenn Theodore Seaborg

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Prize share: 1/2

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"

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