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Harold Urey

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Also known as Harold Clayton Urey, Harold C. Urey

American physical chemist

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Harold C. Urey was a male person from the United States. He was born in 1893 and died on January 5, 1981. He is recognized in the Royal Society collection, the American Academy Arts Sciences collection, the Nobel Laureates collection, and the Nobel Chemistry collection. He has an Erdős number of 5.

Urey authored the work *The Planets, Their Origin and Development*. He is associated with one work in Open Library and five works in Crossref. He received one Nobel Prize. His work is referenced by 943 other encyclopedia articles.

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Chemistry1934

    “for his discovery of heavy hydrogen”

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Instance of
human
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Walkerton
Place of death
La Jolla
Occupation
writer
Educated at
University of Montana
Employer
Lunar and Planetary Institute
Languages spoken
English language
Participant in
Manhattan Project
Doctoral advisor
Gilbert N. Lewis
Doctoral student
Gerald J. Wasserburg
Field of work
physical chemistry
Image
Harold Urey, 1934.jpg
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Harold Urey
date of birth
1893-00-00
date of death
1981-01-05
Erdős number
5
nominated for
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
name in native language
Harold Clayton Urey
interested in
chemistry
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Encyclopedic overview

Harold Clayton Urey ForMemRS (/ˈjʊəri/ YOOR-ee; April 29, 1893 – January 5, 1981) was an American physical chemist who conducted pioneering work on isotopes. He earned the 1934 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his discovery of heavy hydrogen." He played a significant role in the development of the atom bomb, as well as contributing to theories on the development of organic life from non-living matter.

Born in Walkerton, Indiana, Urey studied thermodynamics under Gilbert N. Lewis at the University of California, Berkeley. After he received his PhD in 1923, he was awarded a fellowship by the American-Scandinavian Foundation to study at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen. He was a research associate at Johns Hopkins University from 1924 to 1929, before becoming an associate professor of chemistry at Columbia University. In 1931, he began work with the separation of isotopes that resulted in the discovery of deuterium.

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