Talk:Harold Urey

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I removed this text, because it has remained unsourced for 3 months:

A humorous footnote: During this period, Urey once (during a class lecture) lamented - a bit too vehemently - that he was doing nothing for the War Effort. One of his students, Isaac Asimov, inquired innocently about the enriched uranium that was being kept at Columbia. Was not that related to the war effort? Urey reddened and changed the subject. [citation needed] (see below)

Ashmoo 03:46, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

I've reverted. I think there was an attempt to make the Asimov essay be the citation, so I've corrected that. It might not be useful content, I'm not sure, but it DOES appear to be cited. (John User:Jwy talk) 05:27, 16 October 2006 (UTC)


[edit] "Trivia"/OR

Moved here to Talk.

- "His Columbia University office in Havemayer is now used by Professor Brus of the Chemistry department."

This is presumably some sort of trivia or non-notable item. (Wikipedia:Notability)

- "The corner of the blackboard in the office currently reads: "This office belonged to H.C. Urey, who discovered deuterium"."

As this stands, this is trivia, non-notable, a violation of Wikipedia:Template_messages/Cleanup#Time-sensitive, and/or some problem with Wikipedia:NOT.

These are both also WP:OR and need cites if we want to include them in the article. -- 201.37.229.117 (talk) 17:02, 19 January 2008 (UTC)