Murphy of Columbia University, together with Dr. "You may think there is only one kind of hydrogen, but there are two," the Associated Press reported in February 1932.
Urey, he said, should best be remembered for his work in the origins of life, space science and analysis of moon rocks from Apollo 11 or 12 in 1969.Ĭertainly Urey’s discovery of deuterium, or “heavy water,” figures in. That really pleased me that he took that interest.” “One of the things that really impressed me at the time, he seemed to be more interested in knowing what I was doing than talking about himself. "That would have been in the late ‘60s or early ‘70s,” Field said. His mentor, Richard Noyes, was a highly respected physical chemist who had been a colleague of Urey’s at Columbia University, and the two were personal friends. He was not very popular for awhile with the central administration."įield crossed paths with Urey while doing post-doctorate research at the University of Oregon. "He had some problems with the university moving into PhD-level programs and research because he didn't think we had resources to do it well, and for the most part he was right. "I met him several times, but I don't know that I met him here on campus,"Field said. He said he became interested in Urey’s story while helping organize a memorial to the man in Missoula after Urey’s death in January 1981. He still has an office as a professor emeritus. “That was his opinion.”įield arrived at UM in 1975 and taught for 33 years at Urey’s alma mater, serving as chemistry department chairman from 1990 to 1996. “It was evil,” Richard Field said this week. But even though the bombing 75 years ago of Hiroshima and, four days later, Nagasaki brought an end to World War II, he never wished it to be his legacy. It was true that Urey, a chemist whose name adorns an underground lecture hall on the University of Montana campus, had played a key role on the Manhattan Project. 6, 1945, Urey was acknowledged in the Missoulian as “one of the scientists who played an important part in development of the atomic bomb.” bomber Enola Gay unleashed the most destructive weapon known to mankind over Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. There came a different kind of recognition 30 years later. Urey, a 22-year-old freshman from Indiana by way of a mining camp in the Gallatin Mountains, received the biology award. Missoula first noticed Harold Urey in May of 1915, when the University of Montana announced the winners of the annual C.A.
NRK1 has programmed the series for late 2014-early 2015.Urey at his desk, photograph, circa late 1940s (Northwest Indiana Times) Jacobsen and Sveinung Golimo lead a team of seven producers staging Filmkameratene’s coproduction with Norwegian pubcaster NRK, Denmark’s Sebasto Film, the UK’s Headline Pictures in collaboration with Swedish major, Svensk Filmindustri. The ground action was followed by air bombings, and local resistance sank the SF Hydro ferry on the Tinnsjø lake to stop the transportation of deuterium oxide to Germany. The actual attack on Norsk Hydro’s heavy water plant was carried out by Norwegian British-trained SOE commandos, who destroyed the facility at their second attempt. It follows his work in Germany, while later introducing Norwegian sabotage groups Grouse and Gunnerside, and describing The Allies’ planning of the raid, in the hands of Lieutenant Commander Eric Welsh (Torrens), head of Norwegian Section-Secret Intelligence Service. Scripted by Petter Rosenlund, The Heavy Water War begins in Stockholm 1932, when Heisenberg receives the Nobel Prize. At a press conference in Oslo yesterday (October 14), Norwegian veteran producer John M Jacobsen, of Filmkameratene, disclosed the cast for the six times 60-minute episodes in the series, also including UK actors Anna Friel, Pip Torrens, Denmark’s Maibritt Saerens, Germany’s David Zimmerschied, Norway’s Stein Winge, adding 11 well-known local actors ready for sabotage action.īesides in numerous documentaries, The Allies’ efforts to keep the atomic bomb beyond Hitler’s reach has been depicted in two full-length films, first Jean Dréville- Titus Vibe-Müller’s French-Norwegian film The Fight for the Heavy Water (1948), a factual reconstruction of the 1943 events, then US director Anthony Mann’s 1965 feature, The Heroes of Telemark, starring Kirk Douglas and Richard Harris.