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Urey, Harold Clayton, 1893-1981

LC control no.n 85800535
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Personal name headingUrey, Harold Clayton, 1893-1981
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Variant(s)Urey, H. C. (Harold Clayton), 1893-1981
Urey, Harold C. (Harold Clayton), 1893-1981
Yūrī, Hārūld S̲ī., 1893-1981
يورى، هارولد ثى، 1981-1893-
Birth date1893-04-29
Death date1981-01-05
Place of birthWalkerton (Ind.)
Place of deathLa Jolla (San Diego, Calif.)
Field of activityChemistry, Physical and theoretical
Profession or occupationChemists
Special noteNon-Latin script reference not evaluated
Found inLCCN 63-19499: Ruark, A.E. Atoms, molecules and quanta, 1964 (hdg.: Urey, Harold Clayton, 1893- ; usage: Harold Clayton Urey)
LC database, December 24, 1984 (hdg.: Urey, Harold Clayton, 1893- ; usage: H.C. Urey; Harold C. Urey; Harold Clayton Urey)
Wikipedia, Jan. 22, 2014 (Harold Urey; Harold Clayton Urey; b. Apr. 29, 1893; d. Jan. 5, 1981; American physical chemist; winner of Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1934; known for pioneering work on isotopes, his discovery of deuterium, his role in developing the atom bomb, and his contribution to theories on the development of organic life from non-living matter)
The Nobel Prize website, Jan. 22, 2014 (Harold C. Urey; b. Apr. 29, 1893 in Walkerton, Ind.; d. Jan. 5, 1981 in La Jolla, Calif.; winner of Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1934; Ph.D. in chemistry, U. of Calif., 1923; known for research on the entropy of diatomic gases, the structure of molecules, the separation of uranium isotopes, and the origin of the planets; wrote the books Atoms, Molecules and Quanta (1930, with A. E. Ruark) and The Planets (1952); editor of the Journal of Chemical Physics, 1933-1940)
Sayyārah-ʼi zamīn, 1960: t.p. (هارولد ثى. يورى = Hārūld S̲ī. Yūrī)
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