Glenn Seaborg was born in Michigan, and earned his Ph.D. at Berkeley in chemistry in 1937. He is best known for discovering of the element plutonium in February 1941, with Edwin McMillan. He joined the Manhattan Project, and led the team that was responsible for devising the chemical process for the separation, concentration and isolation of plutonium, which was used at the pilot plant, the Clinton Engineer Works, at the Oakridge site and the production plant at Hanford.
Seaborg served as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission from
