Glenn T. Seaborg Autographed Met Lab History Vol II: Manhattan Project

Signed and inscribed from Glenn T. Seaborg to colleague Edgar F. Westrum, who worked on project C-1 of the Manhattan Project alongside Seaborg, Enrico Fermi, James Franck, Eugene Wigner, and others. References to Westrum directly throughout the publication are tabbed with sticky notes. An interesting historical piece autographed by Seaborg, who was the principal or co-discoverer of ten different chemical elements, one of which, Seaborgium, was named in his honor. This is a thick, nearly 600 page history.

From Wikipedia: The Metallurgical Laboratory (or Met Lab) was a scientific laboratory at the University of Chicago that was established in February 1942 to study and use the newly discovered chemical element plutonium. It researched plutonium's chemistry and metallurgy, designed the world's first nuclear reactors to produce it, and developed chemical processes to separate it from other elements. In August 1942 the lab's chemical section was the first to chemically separate a weighable sample of plutonium, and on 2 December 1942, the Met Lab produced the first controlled nuclear chain reaction, in the reactor Chicago Pile-1, which was constructed under the stands of the university's old football stadium, Stagg Field.

The Metallurgical Laboratory was established as part of the Metallurgical Project, also known as the ""Pile"" or ""X-10"" Project, headed by Chicago professor Arthur H. Compton, a Nobel Prize laureate. In turn, this was part of the Manhattan Project – the Allied effort to develop the atomic bomb during World War II. The Metallurgical Laboratory was successively led by Richard L. Doan, Samuel K. Allison, Joyce C. Stearns and Farrington Daniels. Scientists who worked there included Enrico Fermi, James Franck, Eugene Wigner and Glenn Seaborg. At its peak on 1 July 1944, it had 2,008 staff."

History of Met Lab Section C-I Vol IV Autographed by Nobel Prize Laureate Glenn T. Seaborg, WWII Atomic Research History, Part of the Manhattan Project

Published 1978 by Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.

Please see our other listing, we have Vol IV available for sale as well, also autographed by Seaborg.
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