Arthur Wahl

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

External links

• Arthur Charles Wahl at Find a Grave

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