After only nine years, he was made a full professor of chemistry.  
He started his academic career at the University of California at Berkeley in 1937.  After only nine years, he was made a full professor of chemistry.  During the Second World War, he worked on the Manhattan Project, isolating plutonium from reaction products. His actinide concept (*) revolutionized the organization of the periodic table.  Between the years of 1940 and 1955, he added ten elements to the table.  FTP, name this man, who until his death in 1999 was the only living person to have an element named in his honor.
He started his academic career at the University of California at Berkeley in 1937.  
Glenn Theodore {Seaborg}