Americium: historical information
- Discoveror: Glenn Seaborg, Ralph James., L. Morgan, Albert Ghiorso
- Place of discovery: USA
- Date of discovery: 1944
- Origin of name : from the English word "America".
Americium was was identified by Seaborg and others in 1944 as the result of successive neutron capture reactions by plutonium isotopes in a nuclear reactor.