Harold Clayton Urey, PhD

Affiliations:

Chemistry

Columbia University, New York, NY

Area:

Physical Chemistry

Website:

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1934/urey-bio.html

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Bio:

(1893 - 1981)
http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/deceased-members/20000913.html
http://www.nap.edu/html/biomems/hurey.pdf
http://libraries.ucsd.edu/speccoll/testing/html/mss0044a.html
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1934 was awarded to Harold C. Urey "for his discovery of heavy hydrogen".

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Parents

Gilbert N. Lewis	grad student	1923	UC Berkeley (Chemistry Tree)
(1. The distribution of electrons in the various orbits of the hydrogen atom. 2. The heat capacities and entropies of diatomic and polyatomic gases.)
Niels Bohr	post-doc	1924	Copenhagen

Children

Adriaan H.W. Aten, Jr.	research assistant	1935-1936	Columbia (Chemistry Tree)
David Rittenberg	grad student	1934	Columbia (Chemistry Tree)
T. Ivan Taylor	grad student	1938	Columbia (Chemistry Tree)
Mildred Cohn	grad student	1939	Columbia (Chemistry Tree)
Harmon Craig	grad student	1951	Chicago (Chemistry Tree)
Gerald J. Wasserburg	grad student	1954	Chicago
Stanley Lloyd Miller	grad student	1951-1954	Chicago (Chemistry Tree)
John Simpson Lewis	grad student	1968	UCSD (Chemistry Tree)
Samuel Epstein	post-doc		Chicago (Chemistry Tree)
Clyde Allen Hutchison	post-doc	1937-1939	Columbia (Chemistry Tree)
Robert H. Burris	post-doc	1941	Columbia (Chemistry Tree)
Edward I. Adler	research scientist	1936-1941	Columbia (Chemistry Tree)
Edward I. Adler	research scientist	1936-1941	Columbia (Chemistry Tree)
Cesare Emiliani	research scientist	1950-1956	Chicago (Geotree)
Bertram Donn	research scientist	1954-1957	Chicago (Chemistry Tree)

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Miller SL, Urey HC, Oró J. (1976) Origin of organic compounds on the primitive earth and in meteorites. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 9: 59-72
Urey HC. (1973) Cometary collisions and geological periods Nature. 242: 32-33
Urey HC. (1972) Abundances of interstellar molecules and laboratory spectroscopy. Abundances of the elements. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 194: 35-44
Anderson DM, Biemann K, Orgel LE, et al. (1972) Mass spectrometric analysis of organic compounds, water and volatile constituents in the atmosphere and surface of Mars: The Viking Mars Lander Icarus. 16: 111-138
Urey hC. (1972) Evidence for objects of lunar mass in the early solar system and for capture as a general process for the origin of satellites Astrophysics and Space Science. 16: 311-323
Urey HC. (1972) Evidence for objects of lunar mass in the early solar system The Moon. 4: 383-389
Urey HC. (1972) Identifying lunar amino acids [7] Chemical and Engineering News. 50: 45
Urey HC. (1972) Kílȯméter Science. 176: 233
Urey HC, Marti K. (1972) Lunar basalts [10] Science. 176: 117-119
Nagy B, Modzeleski JE, Modzeleski VE, et al. (1971) Carbon compounds in Apollo 12 lunar samples. Nature. 232: 94-8