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- Birth nameHarold Clayton Urey
- Harold Urey was born on April 29, 1893 in Walkerton, Indiana, USA. He died on January 5, 1981 in La Jolla, California, USA.
- Scientist and professor of chemistry at several universities, including the University of California at La Jolla (1958-1970), who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1934 for his discovery of deuterium, or heavy hydrogen, which led to the development of the hydrogen bomb.
- I thought it might have a practical use in something like neon signs. [on developing heavy water, vital to the atomic bomb]
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