Jacob Bigeleisen
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Jacob Bigeleisen was an American chemist who worked on the Manhattan Project on techniques to extract uranium-235 from uranium ore, an isotope that can sustain nuclear fission and would be used in developing an atomic bomb but that is less than 1% of naturally occurring uranium.
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Lawrence E. GlendeninAlso won Glenn T. Seaborg Award for Nuclear Chemistry
Claire Ellen MaxAlso won Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award
Gerhart FriedlanderAlso won Glenn T. Seaborg Award for Nuclear Chemistry
Harold FurthAlso won Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award
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Jacob Bigeleisen was an American chemist who worked on the Manhattan Project on techniques to extract uranium-235 from uranium ore, an isotope that can sustain nuclear fission and would be used in developing an atomic bomb but that is less than 1% of naturally occurring uranium. While the method of using photochemistry that Bigeleisen used as an approach was not successful in isolating useful quantities of uranium-235 for the war effort, it did lead to the development of isotope chemistry, which takes advantage of the ways that different isotopes of an element interact to form chemical bonds.
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