Ferdinand Brickwedde, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetFerdinand Brickwedde
American physicist
Date of Birth: 26-Mar-1903
Place of Birth: Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Date of Death: 29-Mar-1989
Profession: physicist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Ferdinand Brickwedde
- Ferdinand Graft Brickwedde (26 March 1903 – 29 March 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.
- 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.
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