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American chemist (1917–2006) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Arthur Charles Wahl (September 8, 1917 – March 6, 2006) was an American chemist who, as a doctoral student of Glenn T. Seaborg at the University of California, Berkeley, first isolated plutonium in February 1941.[2] He was a worker on the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos until 1946, when he joined Washington University in St. Louis. Beginning in 1952, he was the Henry V. Farr Professor of Radiochemistry; he received the American Chemical Society Award in Nuclear Chemistry in 1966 and retired in 1983.[3] He moved back to Los Alamos in 1991 and continued his scientific writing until 2005. He died in 2006 of Parkinson's disease and pneumonia.[4]
Arthur C. Wahl | |
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Born | Arthur Charles Wahl September 8, 1917 |
Died | March 6, 2006 88) Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S. | (aged
Alma mater | Iowa State University (B.S.) and University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D.) |
Known for | First isolation of plutonium |
Awards | ACS Award for Nuclear Chemistry (1966)[1] |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Chemistry |
Institutions | Washington University in St. Louis |
Doctoral advisor | Glenn T. Seaborg |
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