Bob Villwock

Today would have been Glenn Seaborg’s 98th birthday.
While I was in graduate school at UC Berkeley, it turned that my lab in Gilman Hall was the Dr. Seaborg’s former lab space. If that name is not immediately obvious to you, then here are a few things he did:

Co-discoverer of ten elements on the periodic table, [...]

With  a little luck and good timing, and with many thanks to my friend Jeremy and his friend who works at NASA, I managed to get the whole family to Kennedy Space Center last week for the launch. I have wanted to do this for about 29 years. In fact, today is the 29th anniversary [...]