Seaborg leaked the synthesis of the elements 95 and 96 on the U . S . radio show for children " Quiz Kids " five days before the official presentation at an American Chemical Society meeting on 11 November 1945, when one of the listeners asked whether any new transuranium element beside plutonium and neptunium had been discovered during the war.
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While Dr . Robert Stone was the Health Director at the Met Lab in 1944, lead chemist Glenn Seaborg, discoverer of many transuranium elements including plutonium, urged him that a safety program be developed and suggested " that a program to trace the course of plutonium in the body be initiated as soon as possible . . . [ with ] the very highest priority ."
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Nobel laureate Carl D . Anderson ( BS 1927, PhD 1930 ) proved the existence of positrons and muons, Nobel laureate Edwin McMillan ( BS 1928, MS 1929 ) synthesized the first transuranium element, Nobel laureate Leo James Rainwater ( BS 1939 ) investigated the non-spherical shapes of atomic nuclei, and Nobel laureate Douglas D . Osheroff ( BS 1967 ) studied the superfluid nature of helium-3.
