Urey

American  

[yoor-ee] / ˈyʊər i /

noun

1. Harold Clayton 1893–1981, U.S. chemist: Nobel Prize 1934.

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Urey British  

/ ˈjʊərɪ /

noun

1. Harold Clayton. 1893–1981, US chemist, who discovered the heavy isotope of hydrogen, deuterium (1932), and worked on methods of separating uranium isotopes: Nobel prize for chemistry 1934

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Urey Scientific  

/ yr′ē /

1. American chemist who is best known for his discovery of deuterium (or heavy hydrogen) in 1932, for which he was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize for chemistry. He also developed theories on the formation of the planets and on the synthesis of organic compounds in the Earth's primitive atmosphere.

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Example Sentences

Lauren Urey, 35, said she and her husband Matt ran for their lives and hid behind rocks after seeing a huge plume rising from the volcano.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 30, 2023

In 2019, the couple had traveled to New Zealand from Australia aboard the Royal Caribbean cruise ship Ovation of the Seas and Matt Urey had booked the volcano tour through the Florida-based cruise company.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 11, 2023

Stanley Miller and Harold Urey, two chemists at the University of Chicago, designed a closed glass loop to mimic the water cycle on an ancient Earth.

From Salon • Oct. 7, 2022

Mr Urey was detained in April with Dylan Healy, from Cambridgeshire, who was freed this week, along with nine foreign nationals - including five Britons, after being held by Russian-backed forces in Ukraine.

From BBC • Sep. 24, 2022

The episode began with a prickly remark by Columbia’s Harold Urey, a chemist who maintained a lively skepticism about the cyclotron’s usefulness.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik