Nationality USA Discovered Plutonium Fields Chemistry | Role Chemist Name Arthur Wahl | |
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Born September 8, 1917
Des Moines, Iowa ( 1917-09-08 ) Institutions Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri Alma mater Iowa State University (B.S.) and University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D.) Known for First isolation of Plutonium Notable awards ACS Award for Nuclear Chemistry (1966) Died March 6, 2006, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States Education University of California, Berkeley | ||
Doctoral advisor Glenn T. Seaborg | ||
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Arthur Charles Wahl (September 8, 1917 – March 6, 2006) was an American chemist who, as a doctoral student of Glenn T. Seaborg at the University of California, Berkeley, first isolated plutonium in February 1941. He also worked on the Manhattan Project.
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