An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

16077 entries, 14165 authors and 1948 subjects. Updated: October 12, 2025

McMILLAN, Edwin Mattison

2 entries
  • 2659.4

The synchrotron: a proposed high energy particle accelerator.

Phys. Rev. 68, 143-144, 1945.

In 1951 McMillan shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Glenn Theodore Seaborg "for their discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements."


Subjects: NOBEL PRIZES › Nobel Prize in Chemistry (selected), ONCOLOGY & CANCER › Radiation (Radiotherapy)
  • 14317

Radioactive Element 94 from deuterons on uranium.

Phys. Rev., 69, 366-367 , 1946.

"This letter was received for publication on the date indicated (January 28, 1941), but was voluntarily withheld from publication until the end of the war."
Seaborg and McMillan discovered element 94, which they named plutonium. In 1951 Seaborg and McMillan shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for their discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements."

Order of authorship in the original publication: Seaborg, McMillan, Kennedy, Wahl.

(Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)



Subjects: NOBEL PRIZES › Nobel Prize in Chemistry (selected)