Memories of Seaborg shared in celebration of his life

Abstract

A memorial session honoring the life of T. Seaborg attracted hundreds of the late chemist's colleagues, students, and admirers at the American Chemical Society national meeting last week. University of California, Berkeley, chemistry professor Darleane C. Hoffman, a long–time collaborator of Seaborg's, presided over the event, which was called Legacy of a Giant During the program, those who had worked with Seaborg shared reminiscences. Gerhart Friedlander, a retired senior chemist at Brookhaven National Laboratory, knew Seaborg for more than 60 years. He was one of Seaborg's first two graduate students in the late 1930s and recalled late–night lab visits by Seaborg. Those visits ended with the U.S. entrance into World War II. Because Friedlander was a German national, a Holocaust escapee, he couldn't go out at night, he explained. But Seaborg's support didn't stop. Glenn stuck his neck out and had me work on some of the early stages of the Manhattan Project This ...