The co-discoverers of nobelium (element 102) in the HILAC building, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL) in 1958 with Albert Ghiorso, Torbjorn Sikkeland, and John R. Walton, (Glenn T. Seaborg absent.) The discovery of element 102 was a complicated process and was claimed by groups from Sweden, the United States, and the former Soviet Union. The first complete and incontrovertible report of its detection only came in 1966 from the Joint Institute of Nuclear Research at Dubna (then in the Soviet Union).

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