Edwin M. McMillan's first important discovery was made in 1940 when he, Philip Abelson, and Glenn T. Seaborg produced and identified samples of transuranium elements , later named neptunium and plutonium. After World War II McMillan became involved in...

Edwin M. McMillan's first important discovery was made in 1940 when he, Philip Abelson, and Glenn T. Seaborg (1912-1999)produced and identified samples of transuranium elements , later named neptunium and plutonium. After World War II, McMillan became...

Edwin McMillan was born in Redondo Beach, California, on September 18, 1907. He received his bachelors degree in physics in 1928 and his masters degree the following year, both from the California Institute of Technology. In 1932 he earned his Ph.D. in...

1907-1991 American physicist who co-discovered the first transuranium element, neptunium. McMillan was director of the radiation facility at the University of California, Berkeley. His research, along with colleague Glenn Theodore Seaborg's, led...

Edwin Mattison McMillan (September 18, 1907 – September 7, 1991) was the first scientist to produce a transuranium element. He was born in Redondo Beach, California, but his family moved to Pasadena the following year. He attended some of the...

Edwin M. McMillan, 84, a professor emeritus of physics at the University of California at Berkeley who was a co-winner of the 1951 Nobel Prize for chemistry, died Sept. 7 at his home in El Cerrito, Calif. He had diabetes. Upon learning of...

EL CERRITO, Calif. -- Edwin M. McMillan, a codiscoverer of plutonium who worked on the World War II project that developed the atomic bomb and was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1951, has died. He was 83. He died at his...