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Glenn Theodore Seaborg

American chemist1912 to 1999

Wikidata names George Ernest Gibson as doctoral advisor and lists 9 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 6 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

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George Ernest Gibson

Students on Wikidata9

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stated by Wikidata
Gerhart Friedlander
born 1916
stated by Wikidata
Arthur Wahl
born 1917
stated by Wikidata
John Gofman
born 1918
stated by Wikidata
Leon O. Morgan
born 1919
stated by Wikidata
Kenneth Street Jr.
born 1920
stated by Wikidata
Roger Batzel
born 1921
stated by Wikidata
W. Wayne Meinke
born 1924
stated by Wikidata
Vera Kistiakowsky
born 1928
stated by Wikidata
Rodney H. Banks
born 1953

Taught3

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Joseph W. Kennedy
born 1916
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Arthur Wahl
born 1917
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Elizabeth Rauscher
born 1937

The line above and below4 steps

The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

1 step up
stated by WikidataGeorge Ernest Gibson
2 steps up
stated by WikidataOtto Lummer
3 steps up
stated by WikidataHermann von Helmholtz
4 steps up
stated by WikidataJohannes Peter Müller

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 9 people: 9 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career6

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1929 to 1937
University of California, Los Angeles
studied
until 1929
Jordan High School
studied
until 1937
University of California, Berkeley
studied
undated
Manhattan Project
worked
undated
United States Atomic Energy Commission
worked
undated
University of California, Berkeley
worked

At a glance

known as: chemist, university teacher, nuclear physicist
fields: nuclear chemistry
awards: Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1951, Priestley Medal, 1979, Perkin Medal, 1957, John Scott Award, 1952, Franklin Medal, 1963, ACS Award in Pure Chemistry, 1947, Enrico Fermi Award, 1959, Swedish American of the Year, 1962, Legion of Honour, 1973, National Inventors Hall of Fame, 2005, Clark Kerr Medal, 1986, Vannevar Bush Award, 1988, National Medal of Science, 1991, Royal Order of the Polar Star, 1992, American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal, 1973, Centenary Prize, 1956, Silliman Memorial Lectures, 1956, Washington Award, 1965, Fellow of the American Physical Society, Willard Gibbs Award, 1966, Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, 1985, George C. Pimentel Award in Chemical Education, 1994, Charles Lathrop Parsons Award, 1964, honorary doctor of the University of Miami, 1967, Glenn T. Seaborg Medal, 1987, William H. Nichols Medal, 1948, honorary doctorate from University of Paris-XI, 1996, Knight of the Legion of Honour
member of: Royal Society of London, from 1985, German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, from 1948, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, American Philosophical Society, from 1952, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Physical Society, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 1985 to 1999, Polish Academy of Sciences
Wikipedia: in 78 languages

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Elsewhere8

identity

stated by WikidataWikipediaGlenn T. Seaborg
stated by WikidataWikidataQ48973
stated by WikidataVIAF98197926
stated by WikidataGND119206927
stated by WikidataIdRef028872231
stated by WikidataISNI0000000114530609

papers

stated by WikidataScopus6701902213

lineage

stated by WikidataMathematics Genealogy Project128054

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@misc{academicancestry_Q48973,
  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{Glenn Theodore Seaborg: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q48973},
  note = {read on 2026-10-22}
}

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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 22). Glenn Theodore Seaborg: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-22]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q48973