Gilman Hall (Berkeley, California)
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Second World War 1939-1945, place with historical importance, NRHP - National Register of Historic Places, historic landmark, department of chemical engineering, department of chemistry / school of chemistry, U.S. National Historic Landmark
Gilman Hall is a building on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley. Room 307 was where Glenn T. Seaborg and his coworkers identified plutonium as a new element on February 23, 1941 and as such, is designated a National Historic Landmark. The building itself is designated a National Historic Chemical Landmark, recognizing the two Nobel Prizes in Chemistry that have resulted from research done in the building.
National Register of Historic Places # 66000203
National Register of Historic Places # 66000203
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilman_Hall
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 37°52'21"N 122°15'22"W
- Alameda Point 11 km
- The Presidio of San Francisco 21 km
- Former Mare Island Naval Shipyard 28 km
- Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve 34 km
- Burleigh H. Murray Ranch 47 km
- Jack London State Historic Park 61 km
- Drake's Bay 66 km
- Farallon Islands 77 km
- Almaden Quicksilver County Park 80 km
- Fort Ross State Historic Park 116 km
- UC-Berkeley Department of Chemistry 0.1 km
- Northside 0.6 km
- Evans Diamond 0.7 km
- Grinnell Natural Area 0.7 km
- Southside 0.7 km
- People's Park 0.8 km
- West Circle 0.8 km
- Downtown Berkeley 1.2 km
- University of California, Berkeley 1.3 km
- San Francisco Bay 18 km