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HAROLD UREY

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HAROLD UREY   Born: 29-Apr - 1893 Birthplace: Walkerton, IN Died: 5-Jan - 1981 Location of death: La Jolla, CA Cause of death: Heart Failure Remains: Buried, Fairfield Cemetery, Fairfield Center, IN Gender: Male Religion: Atheist Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Chemist Nationality: United States Executive summary: Discovered Deuterium American chemist and physicist Harold C. Urey studied under Niels Bohr at Copenhagen, and is best known for his 1931 discovery of deuterium (heavy hydrogen, the isotope of hydrogen, with one proton and one neutron in its nucleus). He later said he had hoped that this discovery "might have the practical value of, say, neon in neon signs", but its principle use has proven to be in nuclear fusion reactions. Urey won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1934, and also isolated heavy isotopes of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and sulfur, conducted respected rese