Alphabetical Index Index by Year of Birth Nobel Prize laureates
Harold Clayton Urey
1934 Chemistry
* 1893 Walkerton, Indiana
+ 1981 La Jolla, California
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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 (Miller–Urey experiment).
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