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On Sun. 23 Feb 1941 Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg chemically identified the rec.....

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Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg chemically identified the recently discovered new element Plutonium in the 60-inch cyclotron at the University of California at Berkeley, California, United States.

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