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Edwin McMillan
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Edwin McMillan

Scientist · born September 18, 1907 · died 1991

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Edwin Mattison McMillan was an American physicist credited with being the first to produce a transuranium element, neptunium. For this, he shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Glenn Seaborg.

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  1. ~44Received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry1951
  2. ~83Received the National Medal of Science1990

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