Urey

American  

[yoor-ee] / ˈjʊər 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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Lauren Urey said she was given no warning of the dangers of an eruption or advice to wear protective clothing.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 11, 2023

A honeymooning U.S. couple who survived the eruption with severe burns, Matt Urey and Lauren Barham of Richmond, Virginia, are listed as the first witnesses to testify.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 10, 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

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