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Glenn T. Seaborg
USA, 1912–1999Rank #2 with 10 elementsAn American chemist who co-discovered ten elements and reshaped the periodic table by moving the actinides into their own row. He won the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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Seaborgium was named after him while he was still alive. He joked that he could receive letters addressed in chemical symbols.
Elements discovered
94PuPlutoniumGlenn Seaborg, Edwin McMillan, Joseph Kennedy and Arthur Wahl, 194095AmAmericiumGlenn Seaborg's team, 194496CmCuriumGlenn Seaborg, Ralph James and Albert Ghiorso, 194497BkBerkeliumStanley Thompson, Albert Ghiorso and Glenn Seaborg, 194998CfCaliforniumStanley Thompson, Kenneth Street, Albert Ghiorso and Glenn Seaborg, 195099EsEinsteiniumAlbert Ghiorso's team, 1952100FmFermiumAlbert Ghiorso's team, 1952101MdMendeleviumAlbert Ghiorso, Bernard Harvey, Gregory Choppin, Stanley Thompson and Glenn Seaborg, 1955102NoNobeliumJoint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, 1960s106SgSeaborgiumAlbert Ghiorso's team at Berkeley, 1974