Stanley Gerald Thompson (1912–1976) was an American chemist. He discovered together with
Glenn T. Seaborg several of the
transuranium elements. One of the elements is Californium, which he and several others made. Thompson was also a leader of the research teams that discovered the next three transuranium elements: einsteinium, fermium and mendelevium (atomic numbers 99, 100 and 101). He received
Guggenheim Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowships are Grant (money), grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, endowed by the late Simon Guggenheim, Simon and Olga Hirsh Guggenheim. These awards are bestowed upon indiv ...
s (Natural Sciences - Chemistry) in 1954 and 1965.
Stanley Gerald Thompson
John Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, accessed 01/05/2019
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1912 births
1976 deaths
20th-century American chemists
Manhattan Project people
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