Background
Street was born in 1920 in Berkeley, California.
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Kenneth Street
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University of California, Berkeley.
Career
He was part of the team that discovered elements 97 and 98 (berkelium and californium) in 1949 and 1950. He obtained his degree in chemistry in 1943 from the University of California, Berkeley. After the war, he returned to Berkeley, obtaining his Doctor of Philosophy in nuclear chemistry in 1949, with a thesis titled "Isotopes of americium and curium".
The work on berkelium and californium was carried out at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory (now part of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) with Stanley G. Thompson, Glenn T. Seaborg and Albert Ghiorso.
Street joined the faculty at Berkeley in 1949, and became Deputy Director of the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, and later a professor of chemistry. His specialities and interests were in the areas of nuclear chemistry, geochemistry and geothermal energy.
Street"s interests included walking in the mountains, backpacking and sailing. Street died on 13 March 2006, in Paradise, California.
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