The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1951
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Edwin Mattison McMillan
Prize share: 1/2
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Glenn Theodore Seaborg
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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