Nationality USA Discovered Plutonium | Role Chemist Name Arthur Wahl | |
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Born September 8, 1917Des Moines, Iowa ( 1917-09-08 ) Known for First isolation of Plutonium Notable awards ACS Award for Nuclear Chemistry (1966) Education | ||
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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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