Helen L. (Griggs) Seaborg (March 2, 1917 – August 29, 2006) was an American-born child welfare advocate and the wife of Nobel Prize chemist Glenn T. Seaborg. March 2 is the 61st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (62nd in leap years). ... 1917 (MCMXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ... August 29 is the 241st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (242nd in leap years), with 124 days remaining. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Glenn T. Seaborg Glenn Theodore Seaborg (April 19, 1912 – February 25, 1999) was an American chemist prominent in the discovery and isolation of ten transuranic elements including plutonium, americium, curium, berkelium, californium, einsteinium, fermium, mendelevium, nobelium and seaborgium, which was named in his honor. ...

Born March 2, 1917, in a Florence Crittenden home for unwed mothers in Sioux City, Iowa, she was adopted by George and Iva Griggs. After her father's death, Helen Griggs and her mother moved to the Santa Ana, California area. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Santa Ana is the largest city and the county seat of Orange County, California. ...

While working a number of jobs, she earned an A.A. from Santa Ana College and a B.A. in English from the University of California at Berkeley in 1939. Santa Ana College is a community college located at the corner of Bristol and Seventeenth streets in Santa Ana, California, USA. In 1915, Santa Ana Junior College opened its doors to 25 students as a department of Santa Ana High School. ... The University of California, Berkeley (also known as UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, and by other names, see below) is the oldest and flagship campus of the ten-campus University of California system. ... 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Helen became the personal secretary to Ernest O. Lawrence, who was director of what is now the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics. While working for Lawrence, she met Glenn T. Seaborg, a scientist who frequently used Lawrence's cyclotrons to create new chemical isotopes, including several with applications in nuclear medicine. Prior to the US entry in World War II, Seaborg led a team that discovered plutonium. Seaborg was recruited for the Manhattan Project while he was dating Griggs. He proposed marriage. They were married in Nevada in 1942 on their way to work in the Chicago "Metallurgical Project" of the Manhattan Project. Helen worked as an administrative assistant to the scientists working in Chicago. Ernest Orlando Lawrence (August 8, 1901 - August 27, 1958) was an American physicist and Nobel laureate best known for his invention of the cyclotron. ... The Berkeley Lab is perched on a hill overlooking the Berkeley central campus and San Francisco Bay. ... Nobel Prize medal. ... The first few hydrogen atom electron orbitals shown as cross-sections with color-coded probability density. ... A pair of Dee electrodes with loops of coolant pipes on their surface at the Lawrence Hall of Science. ... Isotopes are atoms of a chemical element whose nuclei have the same atomic number, Z, but different atomic weights, A. The word isotope, meaning at the same place, comes from the fact that isotopes are located at the same place on the periodic table. ... Nuclear medicine is a branch of medicine and medical imaging that uses unsealed radioactive substances in diagnosis and therapy. ... General Name, Symbol, Number plutonium, Pu, 94 Chemical series actinides Group, Period, Block n/a, 7, f Appearance silvery white Atomic mass (244) g/mol Electron configuration [Rn] 5f6 7s2 Electrons per shell 2, 8, 18, 32, 24, 8, 2 Physical properties Phase solid Density (near r. ... 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1942 calendar). ...

Throughout Glenn's career, she was his traveling companion and provided behind-the-scenes administrative help that enabled Seaborg to pursuing many side projects, including extensive publishing efforts. Seaborg credited his ability to compile so many accomplishments to her valuable advice and assistance. As the wife of the chancellor of U.C. Berkeley she took on many formal duties related to protocol and dealing with official university guests. When her husband served as chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission from 1961 to 1971, she fulfilled a number of diplomatic and protocol roles. Most notably, she filled in for First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy at a White House Dinner in the days following the death of the Kennedy's infant son. First Lady is an unofficial term that is sometimes applied to the female spouse of a male head of state or head of government. ... First official White House portrait. ...

She worked as an advocate for child welfare. She felt indebted to the YWCA for assistance during her own periods of childhood of poverty. She served on the board of directors of the YWCA in both Berkeley, California and Washington, D.C.. She worked as a mediator between the two racially segregated YWCA organizations In Washington to successfully achieve their integration. She also founded and served as a board member of INCAP, an organization that assisted in social assimilation of blacks and white elementary school students during the period of voluntary bussing to achieve integration. In the United States, the child welfare system is a set of government services designed to protect children and encourage family stability. ... Neysa Moran McMein (1888-1949) Y.W.C.A. In Service for the Girls of the World, Poster, 1919 The YWCA (originally Young Womens Christian Association) is a world-wide organisation, founded in the UK in 1855. ... A boy from an East Cipinang trash dump slum in Jakarta, Indonesia shows his find. ... Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in northern California, in the United States. ... Nickname: DC, The District Motto: Justitia Omnibus (Justice for All) Location of Washington, D.C., with regard to the surrounding states of Maryland and Virginia. ...

As an avid hiker, she and her husband spent weekends blazing a trail across the State of California. In 1980, this trail was used as part of the HikaNation project by the American Hiking Society. Later, much of the route became a part of the transcontinental American Discovery Trail. The American Discovery Trail is a coast-to-coast hiking trail across the mid-tier of the United States. ...

She and Glenn had seven children: the late Peter, Paulette, who died in infancy; Lynne, David, Stephen, Eric, and Dianne. Helen Seaborg died of pneumonia on August 29, 2006. David Seaborg (b. ...

References

• UC Berkeley Obituary [1]
• Contra Costa Times Obituary [2]