Harold Urey
29 April 1893 – 5 January 1981
Harold Clayton Urey was an American physical chemist who was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of deuterium, the heavy isotope of hydrogen. He later contributed to the Manhattan Project and to theories on the origin of the solar system and of life, co-designing the Miller-Urey experiment.
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Life events
Harold Clayton Urey was born in Walkerton, Indiana.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe received his doctorate in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe identified the heavy hydrogen isotope deuterium by spectroscopic methods.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe received the prize for his discovery of heavy hydrogen.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe directed research on isotope separation methods for uranium enrichment during World War II.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgWith Stanley Miller he demonstrated that organic compounds could form under simulated early-Earth conditions.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe died in La Jolla, California.
Source: en.wikipedia.org