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Gilbert N. Lewis, chemist who isolated heavy water

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Title

Gilbert N. Lewis, chemist who isolated heavy water

Description

Gilbert N. Lewis, the chemist who isolated heavy water, with Deuteron Neutron Source in East Hall in University of California at Berkeley (UCB) in 1937. The discovery of deuterium (as Urey called heavy hydrogen) also had strong consequences for Lawrence's program. In March 1933 his colleague in chemistry, G. N. Lewis, who had the largest reservoir of heavy water in the world, gave Lawrence enough to use as projectiles for the developing 27-inch cyclotron. (The preceding information was excerpted from the text of the Fall 1981 issue of LBL Newsmagazine.) Photo courtesy of the Bancroft Library, University of California

Citation Caption

LBL NEWS Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 3, Fall 1981, p. 17 | Gilbert N. Lewis, the chemist who isolated heavy water and who was instrumental in bringing E. O. Lawrence to Berkeley.

Date

1937

People

Gilbert N. Lewis

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