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- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 18 September 1907, 1907
- Died
- 7 September 1991, 1991
- Place of birth
- Redondo Beach
- Place of death
- El Cerrito
- Sex or gender
- male
- Field of work
- physics
- Occupation
- physicist, university teacher
- Citizenship
- United States
- Awards
- Atoms for Peace Award, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, National Medal of Science, Fellow of the American Physical Society, Golden Plate Award
- birth name
- Edwin Mattison McMillan
- cause of death
- complications of diabetes mellitus
- described by source
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Physicists: Biographical Dictionary
- doctoral advisor
- Edward Condon
- doctoral student
- A. Carl Helmholz
- Erdős number
- 4
- interested in
- chemistry
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- manner of death
- natural causes
- member of
- National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society, American Physical Society
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- participant in
- Manhattan Project
- place of burial
- Sunset View Cemetery
- student of
- Edward Condon
- writing language
- English
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