Albert Ghiorso:
Albert Ghiorso is an American nuclear chemist.
Birth:
July 15, 1915 in Vallejo, California
Claim to Fame:
Ghiorso was an American nuclear chemist who co-discovered 12 transuranic elements while working at the University of California, Berkeley laboratory. He is credited with the partial discovery of americium, curium, berkelium, californium, einsteinium, fermium, mendelevium, nobelium, lawrencium, rutherfordium, dubnium and seaborgium.
