Edwin McMillan
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Edwin Mattison McMillan (September 18, 1907 – September 7, 1991) was the first scientist to produce a transuranium element.
He was born in Redondo Beach, California. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in 1928 and his Master of Science degree in 1929, both from the California Institute of Technology; he then took his Doctor of Philosophy from Princeton University in 1932.
He joined the staff of the University of California, Berkeley upon receiving his doctorate, moving to the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory when it was founded at Berkeley in 1934.
In 1940 he created neptunium, a decay product of uranium-239, using the cyclotron at Berkeley. In World War II, he was involved in research on radar, sonar, and nuclear weapons. In 1945 he developed ideas for the improvement of the cyclotron, leading to the development of the synchrotron.
With Glenn T. Seaborg, he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1951 for the creation of the first transuranium elements.
In 1946, he became a full professor at Berkeley, and in 1954 he was appointed associate director of the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, being promoted to director in 1958, where he stayed until his retirement in 1973.
He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1947, serving as its chairman from 1968 to 1971.
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1902: E.Fischer
1903: Arrhenius
1904: Ramsay
1905: von Baeyer
1906: Moissan
1907: Buchner
1908: Rutherford
1909: Ostwald
1910: Wallach
1911: Curie
1912: Grignard, Sabatier
1913: Werner
1914: Richards
1915: Willstätter
1918: Haber
1920: Nernst
1921: Soddy
1922: Aston
1923: Pregl
1925: Zsigmondy
1926: Svedberg
1927: Wieland
1928: Windaus
1929: Harden, von Euler‑Chelpin
1930: H.Fischer
1931: Bosch, Bergius
1932: Langmuir
1934: Urey
1935: F.Joliot‑Curie, I.Joliot‑Curie
1936: Debye
1937: Haworth, Karrer
1938: Kuhn
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1943: de Hevesy
1944: Hahn
1945: Virtanen
1946: Sumner, Northrop, Stanley
1947: Robinson
1948: Tiselius
1949: Giauque
1950: Diels, Alder
1951: McMillan, Seaborg
1952: Martin, Synge
1953: Staudinger
1954: Pauling
1955: du Vigneaud
1956: Hinshelwood, Semyonov
1957: Todd
1958: Sanger
1959: Heyrovský
1960: Libby
1961: Calvin
1962: Perutz, Kendrew
1963: Ziegler, Natta
1964: Hodgkin
1965: Woodward
1966: Mulliken
1967: Eigen, Norrish, Porter
1968: Onsager
1969: Barton, Hassel
1970: Leloir
1971: Herzberg
1972: Anfinsen, Moore, Stein
1973: E.O.Fischer, Wilkinson
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1975: Cornforth, Prelog
1976: Lipscomb
1977: Prigogine
1978: Mitchell
1979: Brown, Wittig
1980: Berg, Gilbert, Sanger
1981: Fukui, Hoffmann
1982: Klug
1983: Taube
1984: Merrifield
1985: Hauptman, Karle
1986: Herschbach, Lee, Polanyi
1987: Cram, Lehn, Pedersen
1988: Deisenhofer, Huber, Michel
1989: Altman, Cech
1990: Corey
1991: Ernst
1992: Marcus
1993: Mullis, Smith
1994: Olah
1995: Crutzen, Molina, Rowland
1996: Curl, Kroto, Smalley
1997: Boyer, Walker, Skou
1998: Kohn, Pople
1999: Zewail
2000: Heeger, MacDiarmid, Shirakawa
2001: Knowles, Noyori, Sharpless
2002: Fenn, Tanaka, Wüthrich
2003: Agre, MacKinnon
2004: Ciechanover, Hershko, Rose
2005: Grubbs, Schrock, Chauvin
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