Awards & Winners

Darleane C. Hoffman

Date of Birth 08-November-1926
Place of Birth Terril
(Dickinson County, Iowa, United States of America)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Darleane Hoffman
Profession Chemist
Darleane C. Hoffman is an American nuclear chemist who was among the researchers who confirmed the existence of Seaborgium, element 106. She is a faculty senior scientist in the Nuclear Science Division of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and a professor in the graduate school at UC Berkeley.

Awards by Darleane C. Hoffman

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1997


National Medal of Science for Chemistry
(For her discovery of primordial plutonium in nature and the symmetric spontaneous fission of heavy nuclei; for pioneering studies of elements 104, 105, and 106, and for her outstanding service to education of students in nuclear chemistry and as director of the Seaborg Institute for Transactinium Science of the University of California.)