The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1934
Awarded on: 1934-11-15
"for his discovery of heavy hydrogen"
Affiliations:
- Columbia University – New York, NY, USA
Harold Clayton Urey
Born: 1893-04-29 in Walkerton, IN, USA
Gender: male
Field: American physical chemist (1893–1981)
Biography
Harold Clayton Urey 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.