Award Statement C&EN (Page 8)

Lawrence Elgin Glendenin was born in 1918 in Bay City, Michigan. In 1941, he graduated from the University of Chicago. In 1949, he received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Insitute of Technology (MIT).

In 1945, Glendenin along with Jacob Marinsky and Charles Coryell isolated Promethium, the sixty-first element on the periodic table, while working at Oak Ridge. They isolated the radioactive isotopes promethium-147 (2.62-year half-life) and promethium-149 (53-hour half-life) from uranium fission products.

Awards

1974 Seaborg Award: Lawrence E. Glendenin