In what field was Edwin McMillan's Nobel Prize awarded?
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Edwin McMillan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1951 for his work on the discovery of neptunium, the first transuranium element. He and his colleague Philip Abelson discovered neptunium in 1940 by bombarding uranium with neutrons. McMillan's work in nuclear chemistry laid the foundation for the development of nuclear power and nuclear weapons.
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