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    Harold Clayton Urey ForMemRS (/ˈjʊəri/ YOOR-ee; April 29, 1893 – January 5, 1981) was an American physical chemist whose pioneering work on isotopes earned...
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    was performed in 1952 by Stanley Miller, supervised by Nobel laureate Harold Urey at the University of Chicago, and published the following year. At the...
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  • introduced by Harold Urey and, independently, by Jacob Bigeleisen and Maria Goeppert Mayer in 1947. Since its original descriptions, the Urey–Bigeleisen–Mayer...
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  • mentored and influenced numerous Nobel laureates at Berkeley including Harold Urey (1934 Nobel Prize), William F. Giauque (1949 Nobel Prize), Glenn T. Seaborg...
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  • politician Daniel Salamanca Urey (1869–1935), president of Bolivia Harold Urey (1893-1981), American physical chemist Urey Fedorovich Lisianski (1773–1837)...
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  • The Harold C. Urey Prize is awarded annually by the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society. The prize recognizes and encourages...
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    lynching..." Others, including non-communists such as Jean Cocteau and Harold Urey, a Nobel Prize-winning physical chemist, as well as left-leaning figures—some...
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    Greek deuteros, meaning "second". American chemist Harold Urey discovered deuterium in 1931. Urey and others produced samples of heavy water in which...
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  • Goldwater Scholars, and 40 Udall Scholars to its name. One alumnus, Harold Urey, has won the Nobel Prize. An act of Congress of February 18, 1881, dedicated...
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    federal judge in New York Harold Urey (1893–1981), American physical chemist Hal B. Wallis (1898–1986), American film producer Harold Walker (disambiguation)...
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    there were two lines of investigation into nuclear reactor technology: Harold Urey researched heavy water at Columbia, while Arthur Compton organized the...
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    critics, Harold Urey, felt that Sagan was getting too much publicity for a scientist and was treating some scientific theories too casually. Urey and Sagan...
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    students attend seminars, he attended a chemistry seminar by Nobel laureate Harold Urey on the origin of solar system and the idea that organic synthesis was...
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  • from ancient times with the philosophy of Aristotle through to the Miller-Urey experiment in 1952. Panspermia is the hypothesis that life exists throughout...
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  • came in 1953. A graduate student, Stanley Miller, and his professor, Harold Urey, performed an experiment that demonstrated how organic molecules could...
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    uranium-235. He also discussed the prospects for uranium enrichment with Harold Urey. Niels Bohr and John Wheeler had theorized that heavy isotopes with odd...
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  • American Central Intelligence Agency director (d. 1969) April 29 – Harold Urey, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981) May 3 – Konstantine...
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    and his Ph.D. in 1935 at Columbia University under the supervision of Harold Urey. Rittenberg's doctoral work concerned thermodynamic properties of molecules...
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  • songwriter (b. 1914) January 5 Guy Paquinet, French jazz trombonist Harold Urey, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1893) Lanza del Vasto, Italian...
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  • (1982). "Harold Urey and the discovery of deuterium". Physics Today. 35 (9): 34. Bibcode:1982PhT....35i..34B. doi:10.1063/1.2915259. Urey, Harold; Brickwedde...
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    and the evolution from molecules to cells. In 1952, Stanley Miller and Harold Urey carried out a chemical experiment to demonstrate how organic molecules...
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  • 1953–1955: Clyde A. Hutchison Jr. 1942–1952: Joseph E. Mayer 1933–1941: Harold Urey According to the Web of Science database, as to 15 March 2018, a total...
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    mentored and influenced numerous Berkeley Nobel laureates, including Harold Urey (1934 Nobel Prize), William F. Giauque (1949 Nobel Prize), Glenn T. Seaborg...
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    in the discovery of deuterium, for which Brickwedde's collaborator, Harold Urey, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1934. He was born on 26...
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    scientist and Nobel laureate Harold Urey discovered the isotope deuterium in 1931 and was later able to concentrate it in water. Urey's mentor Gilbert Newton...
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  • dimly lit. This work influenced the theory of Venus and Nobel Laureate Harold Urey devoted a paper to the analysis and implications of it.[citation needed]...
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  • by Oparin's theory, University of Chicago chemists Stanley Miller and Harold Urey applied an electric discharge analogous to a lightning strike to a seawater-like...
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    separation means pursued during the Manhattan Project, more particularly by Harold Urey and Karl P. Cohen, but research was discontinued in 1944 as it was felt...
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  • characters in the novel are historical figures, including Karl P. Cohen, Harold Urey, Leslie Groves, Richard Feynman, Freeman Dyson, Moe Berg, Werner Heisenberg...
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    For these reasons, it did not gain wide acceptance. American chemist Harold Urey, who founded cosmochemistry, put forward a scenario in 1951, 1952, 1956...
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