Noble Norse Gadget Hero (nonfiction)

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

The anagram conflates two ideas relating to the Manhattan Project:

1. Chemist Glenn Seaborg developed the extraction process used to isolate the plutonium fuel for the second atomic bomb. He was born in America to Swedish parents.
2. The Gadget, the 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.

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

Fiction cross-reference

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Nonfiction cross-reference

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