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Ferdinand Graft Brickwedde

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American physicist

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Ferdinand Graft Brickwedde, a physicist at the National Bureau of Standards, in 1931 produced the first sample of hydrogen in which the spectrum of its heavy isotope, deuterium, could be observed.

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Ferdinand G. Brickwedde with his wife, physicist Marion Langhorne Howard Brickwedde (1909-1997). Between them is the apparatus for making heavy water.Ferdinand G. Brickwedde with his wife, physicist Marion Langhorne Howard Brickwedde (1909-1997). Between them is the apparatus for making heavy water.

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Ferdinand Graft Brickwedde, a physicist at the National Bureau of Standards, in 1931 produced the first sample of hydrogen in which the spectrum of its heavy isotope, deuterium, could be observed. This was a critical step in the discovery of deuterium, for which Brickwedde's collaborator, Harold Urey, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1934.

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Lived 1903 to 1989 · aged 86
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