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Harold Urey

1893 - 1981

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Harold Clayton Urey ( YOOR-ee; April 29, 1893 – January 5, 1981) was an American physical chemist whose pioneering work on isotopes earned him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1934 for the discovery of deuterium. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Harold Urey is the 135th most popular chemist (down from 115th in 2019), the 690th most popular biography from United States (up from 705th in 2019) and the 28th most popular American Chemist.

Harold Urey was a chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1934 for his discovery of deuterium, a heavy isotope of hydrogen.

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Among chemists, Harold Urey ranks 135 out of 602. Before him are Christian B. Anfinsen, William E. Moerner, Jaroslav Heyrovský, Richard R. Ernst, Joseph Proust, and John Cornforth. After him are Wilfrid Voynich, Gerhard Ertl, Robert Burns Woodward, Paul Flory, Jean-Marie Lehn, and Johan Gadolin.

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Among people born in 1893, Harold Urey ranks 23. Before him are Draža Mihailović, Albert Szent-Györgyi, Lazar Kaganovich, Roland Freisler, Chaim Soutine, and Harold Lloyd. After him are Karl Mannheim, Paramahansa Yogananda, Palmiro Togliatti, Walter Baade, Prajadhipok, and George Grosz. Among people deceased in 1981, Harold Urey ranks 15. Before him are Claude Auchinleck, Soong Ching-ling, Max Euwe, Odd Hassel, Hideki Yukawa, and William Wyler. After him are Béla Guttmann, William Holden, Marcel Breuer, Max Delbrück, Karl Böhm, and Natalie Wood.

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Among people born in United States, Harold Urey ranks 690 out of 20,380. Before him are Chris Pratt (1979), John Waters (1946), Jerome Isaac Friedman (1930), Sally Field (1946), Janet Leigh (1927), and Machine Gun Kelly (1895). After him are Alfred Newman (1900), Scottie Pippen (1965), Montgomery Clift (1920), Robert A. Heinlein (1907), James Coburn (1928), and Frank Sinatra Jr. (1944).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Harold Urey ranks 28. Before him are Gilbert N. Lewis (1875), Edward W. Morley (1838), William Lipscomb (1919), Paul Berg (1926), Christian B. Anfinsen (1916), and William E. Moerner (1953). After him are Robert Burns Woodward (1917), Paul Flory (1910), Roger D. Kornberg (1947), Jerome Karle (1918), Glenn T. Seaborg (1912), and Marshall Warren Nirenberg (1927).

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