Harold Urey was an American physical chemist who conducted pioneering work on isotopes. He earned the 1934 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his discovery of heavy hydrogen." 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.
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Conducted
Urey proposed the early-Earth reducing-atmosphere setup and supervised the 1952 experiment his graduate student Stanley Miller ran; Miller is not a live entity in this atlas, so only Urey is credited here.
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was an American physical chemist who conducted pioneering work on isotopes. He earned the 1934 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his discovery of heavy hydrogen." 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.
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April 29, 1893
Infobox, Died
January 5, 1981
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