Albert Ghiorso

Albert Ghioroso graduated cal Berkely as an electrical engineer and was introduced Glenn T. Seaborg through a mutual friendship between their wives who also worked as secretaries at the Berkeley labs (Helen Griggs-Seaborg was Ernest Orlando Lawrence's secretary when she met Glenn Seaborg).

This collaboration was most fruitful in the early days of the cyclotron's products being hard to identify and detect, and resulted in many elements being discovered at Cal Berkeley. Glenn Seaborg became Chancellor at Cal Berkeley that led him away from but not removed him from the lab (so is considered a co-discoverer along with Al Ghiorso and Darleane Hoffmann (and Greg Choppin, etc.)

Before the mishap about the discovery of element #118 in 2000, the element was proposed to be named Ghirosium by his colleques...the is a current claim of #110 that if verified may be able to be only the second element named after a living person(and with more element discoveries to his credit than anyone else in history (more than Davy, and even Glenn Seaborg himself!) it should be rightly so...

Al was born in Vallejo CA and grew up in Alameda and was well known for reaching radio frequency distances that outdid the military in the time while he was just a teen ager!