Chemistry and Chemical Biology ETDs

Publication Date

7-3-1958

Abstract

Uranium, discovered by Klaproth in 1789, has been the object of greatly intensified chemical and physical studies since the establishment of the Manhattan Project. An event such as the discovery of the hexachloride of uranium in 1943 points up the relatively unknown status of the chemistry of this element at a fairly recent date. It is not, therefore, surprising that the chemistry of many compounds of greater complexity than the hexachloride had not been investigated. However, with the search intensified for methods of separation of the naturally occurring isotopes for subsequent use in nuclear weapons and reactors, the years since the inception of the Manhattan Project have seen a great expansion in knowledge of the chemistry of uranium.

Project Sponsors

Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory

Language

English

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Chemistry

Level of Degree

Doctoral

Department Name

Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

First Committee Member (Chair)

John Francis Suttle

Second Committee Member

Jesse LeRoy Riebsomer

Third Committee Member

Milton Kahn

Fourth Committee Member

Guido Herman Daub

Fifth Committee Member

Abraham Rosenzweig

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