There is a beauty in discovery. There is mathematics in music, a kinship of science and poetry in the description of nature, and exquisite form in a molecule. Attempts to place different disciplines in different camps are revealed as artificial in the face of the unity of knowledge. All literate [persons] are sustained by the philosopher, the historian, the political analyst, the economist, the scientist, the poet, the artisan, and the musician.
Glenn T. Seaborg, scientist, Nobel laureate (1912-1999)
Glenn T. Seaborg 1999 revolutionized the periodic table by developing the actinide concept in 1944, which placed the heaviest elements (actinides) below the lanthanide series. He co-discovered ten synthetic transuranium elements—including plutonium, americium, and curium—and had element 106, Seaborgium, named in his honor.
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