Glenn T. Seaborg – The Man Who Rewrote the Periodic Table
Glenn T. Seaborg was a nuclear chemist who co‑discovered ten transuranium elements, reshaped the periodic table, and won the 1951 Nobel Prize.
Glenn T. Seaborg was a nuclear chemist who co‑discovered ten transuranium elements, reshaped the periodic table, and won the 1951 Nobel Prize.
Hans Bethe served as head of the Theoretical Division at Los Alamos during WW2, and received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1967.
Frédéric Joliot-Curie, husband of Irène Joliot-Curie, received a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of induced radioactivity.
Ernest Rutherford is most well known for his gold foil experiment which resulted in a new model for the structure of the atom.
Niels Bohr was a Danish physicist whose work on atomic structure and quantum theory made him one of the most influential scientists of the 20th century.
John Cockcroft is best known for splitting the atomic nucleus with Ernest Walton, an achievement that earned them the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1951.
Pierre Curie, husband of Marie Curie, received a Nobel Prize for his work on radioactivity, alongside his wife and Henri Becquerel.
Maria Goeppert Mayer work on the nuclear shell model earned her the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963, making her only the second woman in history to win one.
Albert Einstein is possibly the most famous scientist to ever live. He is most well known for discovering the equivalence between mass and energy.
Otto Hahn was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for the discovery of nuclear fission.