Arthur Wahl

Short description: American chemist (1917–2006)

Arthur C. Wahl

Wahl's identity badge photo from Los Alamos Laboratory

Born|

Arthur Charles Wahl

(1917-09-08)September 8, 1917

Des Moines, Iowa

Died| March 6, 2006(2006-03-06) (aged 88)

Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S.

Alma mater| Iowa State University (B.S.) and University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D.)
Known for| First isolation of plutonium
Awards| ACS Award for Nuclear Chemistry (1966)[1]
Scientific career
Fields| Chemistry
Institutions| Washington University in St. Louis
Doctoral advisor| Glenn T. Seaborg

Arthur Charles Wahl (September 8, 1917 – March 6, 2006) was an American chemist who, as a doctoral student of Glenn T. Seaborg at the University of California, Berkeley, first isolated plutonium in February 1941.[2] He was a worker on the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos until 1946, when he joined Washington University in St. Louis. Beginning in 1952, he was the Henry V. Farr Professor of Radiochemistry; he received the American Chemical Society Award in Nuclear Chemistry in 1966 and retired in 1983.[3] He moved back to Los Alamos in 1991 and continued his scientific writing until 2005. He died in 2006 of Parkinson's disease and pneumonia.[4]

## Further reading

* Jeremy Bernstein: Plutonium: A History of the World's Most Dangerous Element. Cornell University Press, 2009. ISBN:0-8014-7517-1

## References

1. ↑ ACS Award for Nuclear Chemistry
2. ↑ Glenn Seaborg: Chamberlain of Science. Science Spectra. Nº 11 (1998)
3. ↑ "Arthur Wahl" (in en). https://www.atomicheritage.org/profile/arthur-wahl.
4. ↑ Sobotka, Lee G.; Holtzer, Alfred M.; Friedlander, Gerhart; Sarantites, Demetrios G.; Weissman, Samuel I. (2006-07-11). "Obituary of Arthur C. Wahl" (in EN). Physics Today. doi:10.1063/PT.4.2311. https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.4.2311/abs/.

## External links

* Arthur Charles Wahl at Find a Grave

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