Harold Urey chose to forgo the Nobel Prize for Chemistry ceremony in Stockholm in order to be present for the birth of his daughter, even though he had been honored for his discovery of deuterium (“heavy hydrogen”), a component of “heavy water”.

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Harold Urey chose to forgo the Nobel Prize for Chemistry ceremony in Stockholm in order to be present for the birth of his daughter, even though he had been honored for his discovery of deuterium (
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Harold Urey chose to forgo the Nobel Prize for Chemistry ceremony in Stockholm in order to be present for the birth of his daughter, even though he had been honored for his discovery of deuterium (“heavy hydrogen”), a component of “heavy water”.

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