Glenn Seaborg

Seaborg was born on April 19, 1912 in Ishpeming, Michigan. Ishpeming is a small iron-mining town in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Seaborg was of total Swedish decent. His mother was Selma Olivia Erickson, his father Herman Theodore Seaborg. Seeing as how his parents were Swedish immigrants Glenn learned to speak Swedish before he learned English. When Glenn was ten years old his family decided to sell all of their belongings. They bought one-way tickets to California, in hopes of providing a better life for Glenn and his younger sister Jeanette. Seaborg then attended Watts high school, in the suburbs of Los Angeles. The school was racially and ethnically diverse. This helped Seaborg in his later years to be able to intera

Then in 1954, Seaborg became the Associate Director of the Radiation Laboratory, which eventually became Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. In 1958, he was appointed to the University of California Berkeley's Chancellor, which he gave up after three years when President Kennedy offered him to the chair of AEC. He returned to Berkeley in 1971, and resumed his teaching duties until 1979. In 1982, he became the first director of the Lawrence Hall of Science, and two years later became its chairman. Seaborg was named University Professor of Chemistry for the University of California. He held these positions until his death in February 1999.

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