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Stanley Gerald Thompson
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<p>Stanley Gerald Thompson (1912–1976) was an American chemist. He discovered together with <a href="/facts/Glenn_T._Seaborg/w1a3mume">Glenn T. Seaborg</a> several of the <a href="/facts/Transuranium/a12PwdAw">transuranium</a> elements. One of the elements is Californium, which he and several others made. Thompson was also a leader of the research teams that discovered the next three transuranium elements: einsteinium, fermium and mendelevium (atomic numbers 99, 100 and 101). He received <a href="/facts/Guggenheim_Fellowship/SuatTbVK">Guggenheim Fellowships</a> (Natural Sciences - Chemistry) in 1954 and 1965. </p>