Editing Edwin McMillan (section)

==Early life==
McMillan was born in [[Redondo Beach, California]], on September 18, 1907, the son of Edwin Harbaugh McMillan and his wife Anna Marie McMillan née Mattison.<ref name="Nobel bio">{{cite web | title=Edwin M. McMillan – Biographical | author=Nobel Foundation | url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1951/mcmillan-bio.html | access-date=July 16, 2015 | archive-date=June 11, 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150611034929/http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1951/mcmillan-bio.html | url-status=live }}</ref> He had a younger sister, Catherine Helen, whose son [[John Clauser]] (that is, McMillan's nephew) won the [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] in 2022.

McMillan's father was a [[physician]], as was his father's twin brother, and three of his mother's brothers. On October 18, 1908, the family moved to [[Pasadena, California]], where he attended McKinley Elementary School from 1913 to 1918, Grant School from 1918 to 1920, and then [[Pasadena High School (California)|Pasadena High School]], from which he graduated in 1924.<ref name="Oral1">{{cite web |url=https://www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/oral-histories/4773-1 |title=Edwin McMillan – Session I |date=March 19, 2015 |publisher=[[American Institute of Physics]] |access-date=July 16, 2015 |archive-date=July 16, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150716091855/https://www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/oral-histories/4773-1 |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[California Institute of Technology]] (Caltech) was only a mile from his home, and he attended some public lectures there.{{sfn|Seaborg|1993|p=287}} He entered Caltech in 1924.  He did a research project with [[Linus Pauling]] as an undergraduate and received his [[Bachelor of Science]] [[academic degree|degree]] in 1928 and his [[Master of Science]] degree in 1929,<ref name="Nobel bio" /> writing an unpublished thesis on "An improved method for the determination of the radium content of rocks".<ref>{{cite thesis |url=https://thesis.library.caltech.edu/2420/ |title=An improved method for the determination of the radium content of rocks |last=McMillan |first=Edwin |year=1929 |publisher=[[California Institute of Technology]]  |doi=10.7907/9G6C-HC68 | access-date = July 16, 2015 |type=masters }}</ref> He then took his [[Doctor of Philosophy]] from [[Princeton University]] in 1933, writing his thesis on the "Deflection of a Beam of HCI Molecules in a Non-Homogeneous Electric Field" under the supervision of [[Edward Condon]].<ref name="thesis-mcmillan-1933">{{cite thesis |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/301830579/ |title=Deflection of a beam of hydrogen chloride molecules in a non-homogeneous electric field |date=1933 |publisher=[[Princeton University]] |degree=Ph.D. |last=McMillan |first=Edwin Mattisox |id={{ProQuest|301830579}} |url-access=subscription |oclc=77699392 |archive-date=September 19, 2022 |access-date=September 18, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220919020352/https://www.proquest.com/docview/301830579/ |url-status=live }}</ref>{{sfn|Seaborg|1993|p=288}}