Seaborg was born on April 19, 1912 in Ishpeming, Michigan. Ishpeming is a small iron-mining town in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Seaborg was of total Swedish decent. His mother was Selma Olivia Erickson, his father Herman Theodore Seaborg. Seeing as how his parents were Swedish immigrants Glenn learned to speak Swedish before he learned English. When Glenn was ten years old his family decided to sell all of their belongings. They bought one-way tickets to California, in hopes of providing a better life for Glenn and his younger sister Jeanette. Seaborg then attended Watts high school, in the suburbs of Los Angeles. The school was racially and ethnically diverse. This helped Seaborg in his later years to be able to intera

Seaborg then returned to Berkeley from Chicago and became a professor. A few of his best and brightest Chicago team, including physicist Albert Ghiorso, moved with him. Seaborg and his team of scientists then went on to discover the transuranium elements 97 through 102. In 1974, Ghiorso and chemist Ken Hulet discovered element 106 and named "seaborgium." This was one of the many ways that showed the tremendous support Seaborg had within the chemistry community. In 1997, "seaborgium" became the elements official name, making Seaborg the first living person to have an element named after him.

A few years later, in Chicago, Seaborg and his team discovered two more elements- americium (95) and curium (96). Also in 1944, Seaborg developed the "actinide concept," which was probably his single greatest contribution to science. This concept foresaw that the heaviest naturally occurring elements- thorium, protactinium and uranium- together with the synthetic transuranium elements would form a transition series of "actinides." This was similar to the rare-earth series of "lanthanides." It showed how the transuraniums fit into the periodic table with the other elements. Also it became the basis for many major discoveries in heavy element research. This discovery in the chemistry of the transuranium elements won Glenn Seaborg and Edwin McMillan the 1951 Nobel Prize in chemistry.

Seaborg worked his way through college. He was able to pay his undergraduate tuition at UCLA by working as a stevedore,

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