Editing Albert Ghiorso (section)

===Early life===
Ghiorso was born in [[Vallejo, California]] on July 15, 1915, of Italian and Spanish ancestry.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ghiorso.org/AG_documents/AG_obituary_short_version_11_Jan_2011.html |title=Albert Ghiorso Obituary |first=Robert W. |last=Schmieder }}</ref> He grew up in [[Alameda, California]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=paulpreuss |date=2011-01-03 |title=In Memorian, Albert Ghiorso, 1915-2010 - Berkeley Lab |url=https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2011/01/03/ghiorso-obit/ |access-date=2023-12-25 |website=Berkeley Lab News Center |language=en-US}}</ref> Living near the [[Oakland International Airport]], he became interested in airplanes, aeronautics, and other technologies.<ref name="Physics Today">{{cite journal|last=Schmeider|first=Robert W.|title=Albert Ghiorso|url=https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/article-pdf/64/7/63/10093701/63_1_online.pdf|journal=Physics Today|date=July 2011|volume=64|issue=7|pages=63–64|doi=10.1063/PT.3.1176|bibcode=2011PhT....64g..63S |accessdate=July 21, 2023}}</ref> After graduating from high school, he built radio circuitry and earned a reputation for establishing radio contacts at distances that outdid the military.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Transuranium People: The Inside Story |first1=Darleane C. |last1=Hoffman |authorlink1=Darleane C. Hoffman |first2=Albert |last2=Ghiorso |authorlink2=Albert Ghiorso |first3=Glenn T. |last3=Seaborg |authorlink3=Glenn T. Seaborg |date=2000 |publisher=World Scientific |isbn=978-1-86094-087-3 |doi=10.1142/p074 |bibcode=2000tpis.book.....H |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yP63CgAAQBAJ}}</ref>

He received his [[Bachelor of Science|BS]] in [[electrical engineering]] from the [[University of California, Berkeley]] in 1937.<ref name="Physics Today"/> After graduation, he worked for Reginald Tibbets, a prominent amateur radio operator who operated a business supplying radiation detectors to the government. Ghiorso's ability to develop and produce these instruments, as well as a variety of electronic tasks, brought him into contact with the nuclear scientists at the University of California Radiation Laboratory at Berkeley, in particular [[Glenn Seaborg]]. During a job in which he was to install an intercom at the lab, he met two secretaries, one of whom, [[Helen L. Seaborg|Helen Griggs]], married Seaborg. The other, Wilma Belt, became Albert's wife of 60+ years.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Scientist pushed periodic table, discovered 12 elements |first=Martin |last=Weil |newspaper=Washington Post |date=2011-01-20 |page=B5 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/scientist-pushed-periodic-table-discovered-12-elements/2011/01/19/ABi9kmD_story.html}}</ref>

Ghiorso was raised in a devout Christian family, but later left the religion and became an atheist. However, he still identified with Christian ethics.<ref>Schmieder, Robert W., [http://ghiorso.org/AG_documents/AG_autobiography_reorganized_0.48.pdf ''Albert Ghiorso – Notes for Memoirs''], January 2010</ref><ref>Seaborg, Glenn Theodore, et al., ''Transuranium People: The Inside Story'', Imperial College Press, 2000</ref>