1970 Seaborg Award: Paul R. Fields

Fields served on the Manhattan Project during World War II and went on to become a leading scientist with Argonne National Laboratory

His main interests for the past 20 years have been the nuclear and chemical properties of the heavy elements, an area in which he has published about 70 papers and been codiscoverer of two of these new elements.

A member of Phi Beta Kappa, he received a BS degree (1941) from the University of Chicago, where he subsequently completed a year of graduate work.