Noble Norse Gadget Hero (nonfiction): Difference between revisions

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Noble Norse Gadget Hero is an anagram of "Glenn Theodore Seaborg".

The anagram conflates two ideas relating to the Manhattan Project:

Chemist Glenn Seaborg developed the extraction process used to isolate the plutonium fuel for the second atomic bomb. Also, Seaborg was born in America to Swedish parents.
"The Gadget" was the world's first nuclear bomb, test-detonated by the United States Army at 5:29 a.m. on July 16, 1945.

The anagram was first reported by Karl Jones on April 20, 2020.

Glenn Seaborg shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the synthesis, discovery, and investigation of transuranium elements.

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 # Chemist [[Glenn T. Seaborg (nonfiction)|Glenn Seaborg]] developed the extraction process used to isolate the plutonium fuel for the second atomic bomb.  Also, Seaborg was born in America to Swedish parents.
-# The Gadget, the first nuclear bomb, test-detonated by the United States Army at 5:29 a.m. on July 16, 1945.
+# "The Gadget" was the world's first nuclear bomb, test-detonated by the United States Army at 5:29 a.m. on July 16, 1945.
 The anagram was first reported by [[Karl Jones (nonfiction)|Karl Jones]] on April 20, 2020.