Arthur Wahl

Arthur Charles Wahl (September 8, 1917 โ€“ 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 also worked on the Manhattan Project.

Arthur C. Wahl
Born(1917-09-08)September 8, 1917
Des Moines, Iowa
DiedMarch 6, 2006(2006-03-06) (aged 88)
Santa Fe, New Mexico
NationalityUSA
Alma materIowa State University (B.S.) and University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D.)
Known forFirst isolation of Plutonium
AwardsACS Award for Nuclear Chemistry (1966)[1]
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry
InstitutionsWashington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
Doctoral advisorGlenn T. Seaborg

Further reading

Jeremy Bernstein: Plutonium: A History of the World's Most Dangerous Element. Cornell University Press, 2009. ISBN 0-8014-7517-1

Notes
  1. ACS Award for Nuclear Chemistry Archived November 5, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  2. Glenn Seaborg: Chamberlain of Science. Archived 2015-08-28 at the Wayback Machine Science Spectra. Nยบ 11 (1998)
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References

Arthur Charles Wahl at Find a Grave


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