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. Also known as heavy hydrogen , deuterium became...

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 had devoted his life. The subject of that research was the...

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 life. The subject of that research was the origin...

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 April 29, 1893, in Walkerton, Ind., the son of Samuel...

Urey was born in Walkerton, Indiana, on April 29, 1893. He earned a bachelor's degree in zoology from Montana State University in 1917 and a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of California in 1923. From 1923 to 1924, he did post-graduate research...