Gregory Robert Choppin

Gregory Robert Choppin (November 9, 1927, Texas, United States[1] – October 21, 2015, Tallahassee, Florida)[2] was an American nuclear chemist and co-discoverer of the element mendelevium, atomic number 101.

[3] Others in the discovery group were Albert Ghiorso, Bernard G. Harvey, Stanley G. Thompson, and Glenn T.

Video documentation of the discovery was produced by the television station KQED and can be viewed on YouTube with a new narration by Claude Lyneis.

He served there as Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and was named Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor, "...the highest honor the Florida State faculty bestows upon one of its own.

"[8] The chemistry wing of the science building at Loyola University is named for Choppin,[9] and the Gregory R. Choppin Chair in Chemistry and Biochemistry is an endowed chair at Florida State University.