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Also Known As Harold Clayton Urey
Born April 29, 1893 • Indiana
Died January 5, 1981 (aged 87) • California
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize
Subjects Of Study cosmogony • deuterium • heavy water • isotopic fractionation • radioactive isotope • Solar System • uranium-235
Role In Manhattan Project
Frédéric Joliot-Curie
French chemist
Willard Frank Libby
American chemist
Edwin Mattison McMillan.
Edwin Mattison McMillan
American physicist
Jerome Karle, 1985.
Jerome Karle
American crystallographer
Mulliken, 1966
Robert Sanderson Mulliken
American chemist and physicist
Gilbert N. Lewis
American chemist
Irène Joliot-Curie
French chemist
Linus Pauling
Linus Pauling
American scientist
Langmuir, Irving
Irving Langmuir
American chemist
Glenn T. Seaborg
Glenn T. Seaborg
American chemist
R.B. Woodward, 1966.
Robert Burns Woodward
American chemist
Paul J. Flory
American chemist
Calvin, Melvin
Melvin Calvin
American biochemist
Elias James Corey
American chemist
Stoddart, J. Fraser
J. Fraser Stoddart
British-American chemist
Robert J. Lefkowitz.
Robert J. Lefkowitz
American physician and biologist
Louis Brus
Louis Brus
American chemist
Kary B. Mullis
Kary Mullis
American chemist
David Baker
David Baker
American biochemist and computational biologist
Aziz Sancar
Aziz Sancar
Turkish-American biochemist

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