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McMillan, Edwin Mattison (1907–1991)
American nuclear physicist who shared with Glen Seaborg the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of the first transuranic element, number 93, neptunium (1940). Independently, he and the Soviet physicist Vladimir Veksler (1907–1966) developed the synchrotron, from which they shared the 1963 Atoms for Peace award.
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