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Whose work on transuranium elements led to placing the actinoids below the lanthanoids?
AGlenn T. Seaborg
BErnest Rutherford
CLinus Pauling
DHenry Moseley
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. Glenn T. Seaborg
Seaborg's discovery of plutonium and later transuranium elements led to the actinoid row, earning him the 1951 Nobel Prize.
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