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Harold Urey

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Noun1.Harold Urey - United States chemist who discovered deuterium (1893-1981)Harold Urey - United States chemist who discovered deuterium (1893-1981)


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A prominent US chemist, Dr Harold Urey, read between the lines of a terse communique from the Congressional Atomic Energy Commission and announced that at least one thermonuclear device had been "successfully" tested at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific Marshall Islands.
Rose is particularly good on the critics of the government's often incoherent and inherently implausible civil-defense policies, including physicists like Harold Urey, biological scientists Bentley Glass and Barry Commoner, the founders of Physicians for Social Responsibility, and that worthy and venerable publication The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
Over 50 years ago, 23-year-old graduate student Stanley Miller conducted an experiment with his adviser, Nobel laureate Harold Urey.
 
 
 
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