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

Matt Urey and his wife, Lauren Barham, from Richmond, Virginia, were listed on Monday 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

"Our thoughts remain with the Urey family at this difficult time."

From BBC • Sep. 24, 2022

Harold Urey, a Berkeley chemistry PhD working at Columbia, had set out to identify a heavy isotope of hydrogen that had been postulated by Raymond Birge, among others.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik