Leon O. Morgan
Leon Owen "Tom" Morgan (born October 25, 1919 in Oklahoma City , † July 29, 2002 in Austin , Texas ) was an American chemist and a co-discoverer of americium .
Morgan studied at the University of Oklahoma with a bachelor's degree in 1941 and the University of Texas at Austin with a master's degree in 1942. During World War II, he worked under Glenn T. Seaborg on plutonium chemistry at the Manhattan Project in Chicago. After enough plutonium was available, he worked under Seaborg in 1944 on the discovery of transuranic elements by irradiating plutonium at the cyclotron in Berkeley. With Albert Ghiorso , Seaborg and Ralph A. James he succeeded in discovering americium. In 1947 he received his doctorate in Berkeley with Seaborg and was then professor at the University of Texas at Austin. In 1993 he retired. He was also a consultant at Los Alamos National Laboratory .
In addition to nuclear chemistry, he also did research in the field of nuclear magnetic resonance from the 1950s .
literature
- Darleane C. Hoffman , Albert Ghiorso, Glenn T. Seaborg Uranium People , Imperial College Press 2000
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Morgan, Leon O |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Morgan, Tom; Morgan, Leon Owen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 25, 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oklahoma City |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 29, 2002 |
| Place of death | Austin |