Adventures in the atomic age from watts to washington glenn theodore seaborg eric seaborg . A well written and extremely readable chronicle of an amazing career by a humble hard working and extremely smart dude discoverer of multiple transuranic elements nobel prize winner an instrumental figure in the plutonium enrichment aspect of the manhattan project a chemist whose work on radioactive isotopes helped lead the way for important uses in smoke detectors cancer treatment and . To have an element named for you while you are still alive is the rarest of honors and adventures in the atomic age from watts to washington by glenn t seaborg is the story of a life worthy of that honor glenn t seaborg takes you on a trip through his life starting with his boyhood in michigan and his teen years in south gate california. Adventures in the atomic age from watts to washington glenn t seaborg with eric seaborg farrar straus and giroux new york 2001 2500 352 pp isbn 0 374 29991 9 buy at amazon glenn seaborg discoverer of plutonium nobelist and the only scientist to have an element seaborgium 106 named for him during his lifetime is surely the most prolific scientific diarist of the 20th century