Glenn T. Seaborg was born on April 19, 1912 in Ishpeming, Michigan, and he died on February 25 in 1999. When he was 10, he moved with his family to California. In 1929, he graduated at David Starr Jordan High School in Los Angeles as valedictorian of his class. On his way to the University of Chicago's Metallurgical Laboratory in 1942, he stopped in Nevada to marry Helen Griggs. Griggs and Seaborg had seven kids together. Seaborg won a Nobel Prize before he was 40, and he advised several presidents.It is hard to believe that a man who had zero interest in scientist until high school would be one of the most famous scientists in history. He received the degree of Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1937. From …show more content…
Beginning in 1947, he was named as one of America's 10 outstanding young men by the U.S. Junior Chamber of Commerce; in 1947 he became a recipient of the American Chemical Society's Award in Pure Chemistry; in 1948 he received the John Ericsson Gold Medal by the American Society of Swedish Engineers; in 1948 he was awarded with the Nichols Medal of the New York Section of the American Chemical Society; in 1951 he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Edwin M. McMillan; in 1953 he was given the John Scott Award and Medal of the City of Philadelphia; in 1957 he was presented with Perkin Medal of the American Section of the Society of Chemical Industry; in 1959 he received Atomic Energy Commission's Enrico Fermi Award for his outstanding work in the field of nuclear chemistry and for his leadership in scientific and educational affairs; in 1962 he was named Swedish American of the Year by Vasa Order of America, Stockholm; in 1963 he was given the Franklin Medal of the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia. He has received a boundless number of accolades and his fame is global. There was never an issue that Glenn T. Seaborg could not resolve. He was not a man who worked alone, even though he could if he had wanted to. He enjoyed having his colleagues around, so he could bounce his ideas off of them. He did take responsibility for all of the accomplishments he made, but he made sure his partners did not go uncredited. Seaborg was always there for his students, even if he was building the first of two atomic bombs to drop in Hiroshima. He was a very important man, as he was 10 presidents go to for
He served in WWII as a flight radar observer and navigator. After serving in the army he went to school at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee. He went there on the G. I. Bill. After graduating from Vanderbilt with a M. A. in English, he started to teach. He taught first at the Rice Institute in Houston, Texas. His time there was cut short because he was recalled to duty in Korea as flight training instructor. But as soon as he was discharged from the Corps he returned to teach again at Rice University. He taught at Rice until 1954 when he left to go to Europe on the Sewanee Review fellowship. After returning to the U.S. he joined the English Department at the University of Florida. He did not stay there long because he resigned after a dispute after he h...
degree in 1978. He taught at the University of Calgary from 1978 to 1983. But he hated
Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) was an eccentric man that was many lifetimes ahead of his generation. He was a man that dreamed of giving the world an unlimited supply of wireless energy. His genius imagination allowed him to think outside the box and solve issues that others had thought were unsolvable. Nikola Tesla proposed his vision for a system powered by an alternating current generator to Thomas Edison and was shot down because Thomas Edison’s power structure had already been established using a direct current system. The two butt heads however Nikola Tesla was relentless. After being used and rejected by Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla picked himself and went toe to toe with the most prolific inventor. The stage for David vs Goliath was set. Through Nikola Tesla’s borderline obsession to solve the design for an alternating current motor and sacrificing his own opportunity to become a wealthy man, we now live in a very efficient world where everyone reaps the rewards of his genius, few know his name, and even fewer know what he did.
William Shockley was born on February 13, 1910 in London, England. He is most famously noted for winning the Nobel Prize in physics in 1956. He won this for being the co-inventor of the transistor with John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain. Shockley’s parents were both Americans. His father, William Hillman Shockley, was a mining engineer born in Massachusetts. His mother, Mary Bradford, was a federal deputy surveyor of mineral lands. They returned to America when William was just a baby. They both were very encouraging for his love and passion for science, as well as his neighbor who was a professor of physics at Stanford. He got his B. Sc. Degree at the California Institute of Technology in 1932. Four years later he got his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He wrote his doctoral thesis on the energy band structure of sodium chloride. The title of this thesis was “Calculation of Electron Wave Functions in Sodium Chloride Crystals.”
and opened doors for later scientists that were in his field of organic synthesis. He was a
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As chief chemist in the nuclear power division he analyzed material used in reactor plant construction, nuclear propulsion plant systems, and worked on radiochemistry on nuclear submarines.
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Nikola Tesla is a world famous inventor and electrician. His contributions to the world have changed it, helped it, and helped it develop into the future. But one loss in the family caused him to gain low self-esteem, and for his accomplishments to pale in comparison to the memories his family held of the one they lost.
Nikola has changed the world in many ways. Whether through his amazing inventions, creating systems that would change the world, and many books which inspired multiple people that came after him, he will always be a true role model and has set a base for many unique inventors in the future. Nikola was born on the same year that Gregor Mendel started researching genetics. He was born in a city near Gopi in Croatia. That small town had a population of 446 in 2001. It is now most well known for being his birthplace. He was baptized in the same town he was bornin. He was one of five children and he had 1 brother and 3 sisters. His family moved to Gospicin 1862. He went to school in the year 1875 and studied electrical engineering
1. Brown, Theodore L., H. Eugene LeMay Jr., Bruce E. Bursten. Chemistry: The Central Science. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 2000.
Nikola Tesla was born July 10, 1856, in Smiljan, Croatia. He began his love for inventing at an early age, inspired by his mother, who invented different appliances for her family to use. Though his father was a priest and wanted him to become one too, he continued to chase the interests, and he went to school in Austria at the Polytechnic Institute at Graz, where he graduated at the top of his class. He was brilliant from the start, finding problems with DC motors and finding ways to fix them, obsessing over his improvements for a little over half a
History has forgotten the landlady, but George de Hevesy went on to win the Nobel Prize in 1943 and the Atoms for Peace award in 1959. His was the first use of radioactive tracers - now routine in environmental science” (World Nuclea...
...ment in the field of Physics his goals for world peace are even more important to remember. He is one of the best known scientists of the century and was even named the person of the century, by Time Magazine.
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