University of California at Berkeley campus, Berkeley, California. County/parish: Alameda.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places October 15, 1966. NRIS 66000203.
1 contributing building.
Gilman Hall is a building on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley. Room 307 was where Glenn T. Seaborg and his coworkers identified plutonium as a new element on February 23, 1941 and as such, is designated a National Historic Landmark. The building itself is designated a National Historic Chemical Landmark, recognizing the two Nobel Prizes in Chemistry that have resulted from research done in the building.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123857891