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Harold Urey
American physical chemist.
Born April 29th, 1893 in Walkerton. [ref]
Died January 5th, 1981 at 87 years old in La Jolla. [ref]
Occupations
astronomer, chemist, physical chemist, physicist, university teacher
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It is the fate — the genetic and neural fate — of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death. Oliver Sacks