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Original – Nobel prize winner Glenn Seaborg in front of the periodic table with an ion exchanger apparatus of actinide elements. Photograph: 1950.
Reason
1951 Nobel prize winner in chemistry Glenn T. Seaborg in front of the periodic table. Photograph 1950. The element 106 of the table, Seaborgium, is named after him. He also identified the proper location of element 90 Thorium within the table. He synthesized over a hundred actinide isotopes and here he is photographed with an ion exchanger apparatus of actinide elements.
Articles in which this image appears
Glenn T. Seaborg, Seaborgium, Thorium
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Science and engineering
Creator
U.S. Department of Energy, Berkeley Laboratory, restored by Bammesk

Promoted File:Seaborg in lab - restoration.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 03:08, 8 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]