Mtskheta
Mtskheta , town (1989 pop. 9,588), W central Georgia, on the Kura River and the Georgian Military Road. It was the capital of ancient Iberia until the 6th cent. AD, when the capital was moved to Tbilisi ; Mtskheta remained the religious center of the country. The Sveti-Tskhoveli cathedral (11th cent.; destroyed by Timur; rebuilt 15th cent.) contains the burial vaults of Georgian rulers. The Samtavro cathedral (11th cent.) was restored in 1903. In the hills near the town are ruins of the Dzhvari temple of the late 6th or early 7th cent.
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Edwin M. McMillan, 84, Nobel Co-Winner, Dies
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 9/9/1991; ; 700+ words
; ...work for the government, Dr. McMillan returned to Berkeley, where...accelerators of today possible. Dr. McMillan began his career at Berkeley...for nuclear arms limitations. Edwin Mattison McMillan was born Sept. 18, 1907, in...
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Winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
News Wire article from: United Press International; 10/8/2003; 700+ words
; ...Archer John Porter Martin, United Kingdom; Richard Laurence Millington Synge, United Kingdom. 1951 -- Edwin Mattison McMillan, United States; Glenn Theodore Seaborg, United States. 1950 -- Otto Paul Hermann Diels, Germany; Kurt Alder...
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureates.
News Wire article from: United Press International; 10/9/2002; 700+ words
; ...Archer John Porter Martin, United Kingdom; Richard Laurence Millington Synge, United Kingdom. 1951 -- Edwin Mattison McMillan, United States; Glenn Theodore Seaborg, United States. 1950 -- Otto Paul Hermann Diels, Germany; Kurt Alder...
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Nobel callings // The university's ranks yield 61 winners of the prestigious prize
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 10/6/1991; 700+ words
; ...Physics, 1965, with Richard P. Feynman and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga Glenn Theodore Seaborg, Chemistry, 1951, with Edwin Mattison McMillan Manhattan Project, 1942-46 Herbert A. Simon, Economic Sciences, 1978 Roger W. Sperry, M.D., Physiology...
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NOBEL PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY LAUREATES
News Wire article from: United Press International; 10/9/2002; 700+ words
; ...Archer John Porter Martin, United Kingdom; Richard Laurence Millington Synge, United Kingdom. 1951 -- Edwin Mattison McMillan, United States; Glenn Theodore Seaborg, United States. 1950 -- Otto Paul Hermann Diels, Germany; Kurt Alder...
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WINNERS OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY
News Wire article from: United Press International; 10/8/2003; 700+ words
; ...Archer John Porter Martin, United Kingdom; Richard Laurence Millington Synge, United Kingdom. 1951 -- Edwin Mattison McMillan, United States; Glenn Theodore Seaborg, United States. 1950 -- Otto Paul Hermann Diels, Germany; Kurt Alder...
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Edwin Mattison McMillan
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Edwin Mattison McMillan 1907-91, American physicist, b. Redondo Beach, Calif., grad. California Institute of Technology, 1928, Ph.D. Princeton...
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McMillan, Edwin Mattison
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
McMillan, Edwin Mattison (1907–91) US physicist...neptunium and other transuranic elements . McMillan worked on the atomic bomb at Los Alamos...University of California at Berkeley. McMillan developed the synchrocyclotron that...
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The 1940s: Science and Technology: People in the News
Book article from: American Decades
...1940 physical chemist Philip Abelson and physicist Edwin McMillan discovered neptunium, the first transuranic (heavier...Sciences. A theory formulated by Berkeley physicist Edwin Mattison McMillan led to the invention of the synchrocyclotron, which...
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Seaborg, Glenn Theodore
Book article from: Chemistry: Foundations and Applications
...98), einsteinium (99), fermium (100), mendelevium (101), and nobelium (102). In 1951 Seaborg and Edwin Mattison McMillan received the Nobel Prize in chemistry "for their discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements...
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