Edwin McMillan
American physicist
Edwin Mattison McMillan was an American physicist credited with being the first to produce a transuranium element, neptunium. For this, he shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Glenn Seaborg. Wikipedia
Born: September 18, 1907, Redondo Beach, CA
Died: September 7, 1991 (age 83 years), El Cerrito, CA
Notable student: A. Carl Helmholz
Education: Princeton University, California Institute of Technology, and Pasadena High School
Fields: Chemistry