Nation: GLENN SEABORG: From Californium to the AEC

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Planned Parenthood. Although he is a registered Democrat, Seaborg has been politically passive, served both Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower as an adviser. In 1959 the AEC gave him the $50,000 Enrico Fermi Award—the highest honor the Government can bestow on an atomic scientist. Last January, four days before he took office as President, John Kennedy appointed Seaborg chairman of the AEC—the highest federal administrative post a U.S. scientist has ever attained.

Seaborg is married to the former secretary of the late Dr. Ernest O. Lawrence, one of his campus colleagues at Berkeley, inventor of the cyclotron and a Nobel laureate. Seaborg and his wife agreed that it would be nice to have a family of six children—and they have six, including one boy who was calmly and tidily delivered by his father. With characteristic resourcefulness Glenn Seaborg had already studied obstetrics and knew exactly what to do in such an emergency. Such scientific foresight should serve him well in his present job.