Editing Glenn T. Seaborg (section)

==Personal life==
[[File:Helen and Glenn Seaborg 1951.jpg|thumb|left|Helen and Glenn Seaborg in Stockholm in 1951]]
In 1942, Seaborg married [[Helen L. Seaborg|Helen Griggs]], the secretary of physicist [[Ernest Lawrence]]. Under wartime pressure, Seaborg had moved to Chicago while engaged to Griggs. When Seaborg returned to accompany Griggs for the journey back to Chicago, friends expected them to marry in Chicago. But, eager to be married, Seaborg and Griggs impulsively got off the train in the town of [[Caliente, Nevada]], for what they thought would be a quick wedding. When they asked for City Hall, they found Caliente had none—they would have to travel {{convert|25|mi}} north to [[Pioche, Nevada|Pioche]], the [[county seat]]. With no car, this was no easy feat, but one of Caliente's newest deputy sheriffs turned out to be a recent graduate of the Cal Berkeley chemistry department and was more than happy to do a favor for Seaborg. The deputy sheriff arranged for the wedding couple to ride up and back to Pioche in a mail truck. The witnesses at the Seaborg wedding were a clerk and a janitor.{{sfnp|Seaborg|Seaborg|2001|pp=79–85}} Glenn Seaborg and Helen Griggs Seaborg had seven children, of whom the first, Peter Glenn Seaborg, died in 1997 (his twin Paulette having died in infancy).<ref>{{Cite web |url = http://www2.lbl.gov/today/2006/Sep/05-Tue/Seaborg-obit.html |title = Today at Berkeley Lab: Seaborg Family Remembers: Helen 'a Mixture of Efficiency and Diplomacy' |website = www2.lbl.gov |access-date = December 2, 2016 |archive-date = February 18, 2017 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170218082459/http://www2.lbl.gov/today/2006/Sep/05-Tue/Seaborg-obit.html |url-status = dead }}</ref> The others were Lynne Seaborg Cobb, [[David Seaborg]], Steve Seaborg, Eric Seaborg, and Dianne Seaborg.{{sfnp|Hoffman|2007|p=332 }}

Seaborg was an avid hiker. Upon becoming Chairman of the AEC in 1961, he commenced taking daily hikes through a trail that he blazed at the headquarters site in [[Germantown, Maryland]]. He frequently invited colleagues and visitors to accompany him, and the trail became known as the "Glenn Seaborg Trail." He and his wife Helen are credited with blazing a {{convert|12|mi|km|adj=on}} trail in the East Bay area near their home in Lafayette, California. This trail has since become a part of the American Hiking Association's cross-country network of trails. Seaborg and his wife walked the trail network from [[Contra Costa County]] all the way to the California–Nevada border.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://science.energy.gov/bes/about/bes-organizational-history/germantown-natural-history/glenn-seaborg-trail/ |title = Glenn Seaborg Trail |publisher = [[United States Department of Energy|Department of Energy]] |access-date = June 16, 2013 |archive-date = October 25, 2011 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20111025042502/http://science.energy.gov/bes/about/bes-organizational-history/germantown-natural-history/glenn-seaborg-trail/ |url-status = live }}</ref>{{sfnp|Hoffman|2007|p=335 }}

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|quote=There is a beauty in discovery. There is mathematics in music, a kinship of science and poetry in the description of nature, and exquisite form in a molecule. Attempts to place different disciplines in different camps are revealed as artificial in the face of the unity of knowledge. All literate men are sustained by the philosopher, the historian, the political analyst, the economist, the scientist, the poet, the artisan and the musician.
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Seaborg was elected a foreign member of the [[Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences]] in 1972 and a [[List of Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1985|Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) of London in 1985]].<ref name=formemrs>{{Cite journal |last1 = Hoffman |first1 = D.C. |author-link = Darleane C. Hoffman |doi = 10.1098/rsbm.2007.0021 |title = Glenn Theodore Seaborg. 19 April 1912 – 25 February 1999 |journal = [[Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society]] |volume = 53 |pages = 327–338 |year = 2007 |jstor = 20461382 |doi-access = free |ref=none}}</ref>{{sfnp|Hoffman|2007|p=334 }} He was honored as [[Swedish-American]] of the Year in 1962 by the [[Vasa Order of America]]. In 1991, the organization named "Local Lodge Glenn T. Seaborg No. 719" in his honor during the Seaborg Honors ceremony at which he appeared. This lodge maintains a scholarship fund in his name, as does the unrelated Swedish-American Club of Los Angeles.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.vasaorder.net/?lodge=719 |title = Glenn T. Seaborg No. 719 Vasa Order of America |publisher = [[Vasa Order of America]] |access-date = June 16, 2013 |archive-date = September 18, 2013 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130918162831/http://www.vasaorder.net/?lodge=719 |url-status = dead }}</ref>

Seaborg kept a close bond to his Swedish origin. He visited Sweden every so often, and his family were members of the Swedish ''Pemer Genealogical Society'', a family association open for every descendant of the Pemer family, a Swedish family with German origin, from which Seaborg was descended on his mother's side.<ref>{{cite book |last1 = Hoffman |first1 = D.C. |last2 = Ghiorso |first2 = A. |last3 = Seaborg |first3 = G.T. |year = 2000 |title = The Transuranium People: The Inside Story |publisher = [[World Scientific Publishing]] |pages = lxvii–lxviii |isbn = 978-1-86094-087-3 }}</ref> (In recent years, after both men's passings, it has been discovered that physicist colleague [[Edward J. Lofgren]] was also descended from the Pemer family.)<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.pemerforeningen.se/kanda-attlingar/ | title=Kända ättlingar | access-date=June 6, 2023 | archive-date=June 6, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230606120058/https://www.pemerforeningen.se/kanda-attlingar/ | url-status=live }}</ref> Seaborg even responded to the Swedish king's Nobel prize toast in his mother's native region's dialect,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Glenn T. Seaborg - His Biography |url=https://www2.lbl.gov/Publications/Seaborg/bio.htm |access-date=2022-04-25 |website=www2.lbl.gov |archive-date=January 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220121193553/https://www2.lbl.gov/Publications/Seaborg/bio.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> which he described as "It was as if a Swede had <nowiki>''y'</nowiki>alled" in English with a Southern Accent."".<ref>{{Cite book |last=Seaborg |first=Glenn Theodore |title=Adventures in the atomic age: from Watts to Washington |publisher=Farrar, Straus, and Giroux |year=2001 |isbn=9780374299910 |edition=1st |location=Canada |pages=150}}</ref>