Grade Range: K-12Resource Type(s): Primary Source, ArtifactsDate Posted: 11/10/2010
Edwin McMillan shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Glenn Seaborg. McMillan discovered element 93, or neptunium, in 1940 while working on the world's largest cyclotron at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Seaborg's discovery of element 94, or plutonium, was based on McMillan's discovery.
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This circular slide rule describes the effects of a nuclear explosion on people. After World War ...
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Loosely based upon the childhood of Maria Mitchell, America's first woman astronomer, here is sto...
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