Glenn Seaborg worked his way through UCLA in a variety of ways - as stevedore, night watchman, apricot picker and linotype mechanic apprentice, earning his B.A. degree in 1934. Later he attended UC Berkeley where he became a faculty member and chancellor. Seaborg talked about the influence of "John Mead Adams of UCLA who taught a course in atomic physics in which I learned about nuclear physics. After that course, I knew that I wanted to get into nuclear research." ucla.edu
Educated at UCLA (A.B. 1934) and Berkeley (Ph.D. in chemistry, 1937), Glenn Seaborg joined the faculty at Berkeley in 1937. During the years 1942 to 1946 he was on leave at the Metallurgical Laboratory of the University of Chicago , engaged in the Manhat sunsite.berkeley.edu/CalHistory/chancellor.seaborg.html
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