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Discovery of Americium

United States of America · Science / Chemistry. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1944

Glenn Theodore Seaborg1944

Chicago · Science / Chemistry

Co-discovers americium and places it within the newly proposed actinide series of the periodic table.

Names involved

Glenn Theodore Seaborg

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