Talk:Harold Urey

Possible mistake re:line shift for deuterium
According to the formula at the bottom of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rydberg_constant#Occurrence_in_Bohr_model the deuterium lines should be blueshifted (=shorter wavelength), but the article says (here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Urey#Deuterium) that they should be redshifted. This needs further verification. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.101.86.50 (talk) 09:12, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

Reviewed article and Talk page. Don't know why this remains. Jplvnv (talk) 01:52, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

Untitled
I removed this text, because it has remained unsourced for 3 months:


 * A humorous footnote: During this period, Urey once (during a class lecture) lamented - a bit too vehemently - that he was doing nothing for the War Effort. One of his students, Isaac Asimov, inquired innocently about the enriched uranium that was being kept at Columbia. Was not that related to the war effort? Urey reddened and changed the subject.  (see below)

Ashmoo 03:46, 16 October 2006 (UTC)


 * I've reverted. I think there was an attempt to make the Asimov essay be the citation, so I've corrected that.  It might not be useful content, I'm not sure, but it DOES appear to be cited. (John User:Jwy talk) 05:27, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

"Trivia"/OR
Moved here to Talk.

- "His Columbia University office in Havemayer is now used by Professor Brus of the Chemistry department."

This is presumably some sort of trivia or non-notable item. (Notability)

- "The corner of the blackboard in the office currently reads: "This office belonged to H.C. Urey, who discovered deuterium"."

As this stands, this is trivia, non-notable, a violation of Template_messages/Cleanup, and/or some problem with NOT.

These are both also WP:OR and need cites if we want to include them in the article. -- 201.37.229.117 (talk) 17:02, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Asimov Section Missing Quotation Marks?
In the paragraph discussing Urey and Asimov and uranium, there's curious italicization and NPOV-ness in describing "the most dangerous situation that humanity has ever faced in all history." Someone with the resources want to confirm whether that's because there's a quote of Asimov or someone else in there? Czrisher (talk) 15:13, 12 October 2012 (UTC)

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Carl Sagan's Science Mentors
"Gerald Kuiper, Harold Urey, and Hermann Muller were three of Sagan's primary mentors." Perhaps better for Carl Sagan page, but at least a passing reference here? Peace. Jplvnv (talk) 01:56, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

The Kuiper-Urey “Hot Moon Cold Moon” controversy (shown at Gerard Kuiper) should also be included. TGCP (talk) 18:37, 24 June 2020 (UTC)