A Chemist in the White House.(Review)

Chemistry and Industry | November 2, 1998| | Copyright

Glenn T Seaborg Washington, DC: American Chemical Society 1998 Ppix+341, $59.95, ISBN 0 8412 3347 0

Who is the most famous chemist alive today? High on the list for this accolade is the Swedish-American chemist Glenn Theodore Seaborg. Currently the university professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, Seaborg, born in 1912, is still astonishingly active.

He is known primarily as a highly skilled practical chemist, noted especially for his pioneering work on a variety of synthetic transuranic elements. He is now recognised as the ...

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