Arthur Wahl
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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 Wahl's identity badge photo from Los Alamos Laboratory | |
| Born | Arthur Charles Wahl September 8, 1917 |
| Died | March 6, 2006 (aged 88) Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S. |
| 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 |
Further reading
- Jeremy Bernstein: Plutonium: A History of the World's Most Dangerous Element. Cornell University Press, 2009. ISBN 0-8014-7517-1
References
- ACS Award for Nuclear Chemistry Archived November 5, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
- Glenn Seaborg: Chamberlain of Science. Archived 2015-08-28 at the Wayback Machine Science Spectra. Nº 11 (1998)
- "Arthur Wahl". Atomic Heritage Foundation. Retrieved 2021-05-27.
- Sobotka, Lee G.; Holtzer, Alfred M.; Friedlander, Gerhart; Sarantites, Demetrios G.; Weissman, Samuel I. (2006-07-11). "Obituary of Arthur C. Wahl". Physics Today. doi:10.1063/PT.4.2311.
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