About
An American physical chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1934 for discovering the isotope deuterium. He also did important work in uranium enrichment and isotope separation through gaseous diffusion.
Before Fame
He went to an Amish grade school in Indiana as a boy.
Trivia
He was awarded the Medal of Merit for working on the Manhattan project.
Family Life
He had four children with his wife Frieda Daum who he married in 1926.
Associated With
Like Albert Einstein, he was a Nobel laureate who worked on the Manhattan Project.
