Ferdinand Graft Brickwedde (1903-1989), a physicist at the National Bureau of Standards (now the National Institute of Standards and Technology), in 1931 produced the first sample of hydrogen in which the spectrum of its heavy isotope, deuterium, could be observed. Hydrogen (ˈhaɪdrədʒən is the Chemical element with Atomic number 1 Deuterium, also called heavy hydrogen, is a Stable isotope of Hydrogen with a Natural abundance in the Oceans of Earth This was a critical step in the discovery of deuterium, for which Brickwedde's collaborator, Harold Urey, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1934. Harold Clayton Urey ( April 29, 1893 &ndash January 5, 1981) was an American Physical chemist whose pioneering work
Brickwedde was educated at The Johns Hopkins University, B. A. 1922, M. A. 1924, and Ph. D. 1925. An endowed lectureship in his nameis maintained there. In 1925 he joined the National Bureau of Standards as a postdoctoral Mansell Research Associate, was promoted to Chief of its Low Temperature Laboratory in 1926, and became Chief of its Heat and Power Division in 1946.
In 1956, Brickwedde was appointed Dean of the College of Chemistry and Physics at the Pennsylvania State University. The Pennsylvania State University (commonly known as Penn State) is a state-related, land-grant, space grant public research University He served in this position until 1963, and then was appointed Evan Pugh Research Professor of Physics Emeritus, in which position he served until his death in 1989.
External links
- "A Hydrogen Isotope of Mass 2," Harold C. Urey, F. G. Brickwedde and G. M. Murphy, The Physical Review, v. 39, pp. 164-165 (1932)
- Account of the discovery of deuterium
- Obituary in the New York Times
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