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The search seeks the exact word or phrase that you type, so if you donât find your choice, try searching for a keyword in your topic or recheck the spelling of a word or name. Urey, Harold Clayton Urey, Harold Clayton (1893-1981), American chemist and Nobel laureate, best known for his discovery of deuterium, or heavy hydrogen, symbol D or H. Urey was born in Walkerton, Indiana, and educated at the universities of Montana and California. From 1917 to 1919 he worked for the Barrett Chemical Company in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Between 1919 and 1957 he taught chemistry successively at the University of Montana, Johns Hopkins and Columbia universities, and the universities of Chicago and Oxford. In 1958 he was named Professor of Chemistry at large of the University of California at San Diego. For his discovery of deuterium and his isolation of heavy water (deuterium oxide, D O) in 1932, Urey was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Subsequently he was director of war research in the atomic-bomb project at Columbia University, where his group did the initial research on separating uranium-235, the fissionable isotope, from uranium-238, the more abundant isotope. He also contributed to the development of the hydrogen bomb ( | |
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