Noble Norse Gadget Hero (nonfiction)
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Noble Norse Gadget Hero is an anagram of "Glenn Theodore Seaborg".
Analysis
The anagram conflates two ideas relating to the Manhattan Project:
- "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.
- Chemist Glenn Seaborg developed the extraction process used to isolate the plutonium fuel for "Fat Man", the second of the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan at the end of the Second World War.
Also, Seaborg was born in America to Swedish parents, thus "Norse".
That Seaborg was a hero is attested by his being awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, among many other accolades.
The anagram was first reported by Karl Jones on April 20, 2020.
In the News
Glenn Seaborg shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the synthesis, discovery, and investigation of transuranium elements.