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How was americium discovered?

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It was discovered in 1944 by Glenn T. Seaborg , Ralph A. James, Leon O. Morgan, and Albert Ghiorso, who bombarded plutonium-239 with neutrons to form plutonium-241, which decays to form americium-241.

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