Harold Urey Summary

Harold Clayton Urey 1893-1981 American Chemist Harold Clayton Urey is best known for his work with isotopes. He received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1934 for the discovery and isolation of deuter... Read more

The American Scientist Harold Clayton Urey (1893-1981) received the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1934 for his discovery of deuterium, the isotope of heavy hydrogen.Harold Clayton Urey was born on Apri... Read more

Already a scientist of great honor and achievement, Harold Urey's last great period of research brought together his interests and experiences in a number of fields of research to which he devoted his... Read more

In 1934 Harold Urey was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry for his discovery of deuterium, an isotope, or species, of hydrogen in which the atoms weigh twice as much as those in ordinary hydrogen. A... Read more