German chemist Lise Meitner (1878-1968) being awarded the Fermi Award by the US chemist and US Atomic Energy Commission chairman Glenn Theodore Seabor
German chemist Lise Meitner (1878-1968) being awarded the Fermi Award by the US chemist and US Atomic Energy Commission chairman Glenn Theodore Seaborg (1912-1999). Meitner was a pioneer of nuclear chemistry. She worked, with Otto Hahn, on nuclear fission. This work led to the building of the first atomic bomb. Seaborg discovered the transuranic element plutonium (Pu) in 1940, and the element Seaborgium (Sg) is named after him. He also discovered Americium (Am) and seven other transuranics. In 1944, Seaborg formulated the actinide concept which predicted the properties of a series of 14 heavy elements, including the first 11 transuranics. For this work, he was awarded a share of the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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