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Leon Owen Morgan (October 25, 1919 – July 29, 2002) was an American academic and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin.[1] He co-discovered the chemical element americium along with Albert Ghiorso, Glenn T. Seaborg and Ralph A. James.[2][3][4]
He studied at the University of Oklahoma, receiving a bachelor's degree in 1941, and at the University of Texas at Austin, receiving a master's degree in 1942. During World War II, he worked under Seaborg on plutonium chemistry in the Manhattan Project in Chicago and in 1944 on the discovery of transuranic elements by irradiating plutonium at the cyclotron in Berkeley.[5][6]
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