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Jacob Bigeleisen

Date of Birth 02-May-1919
Place of Birth Paterson
(Passaic County, New Jersey, Area codes 862 and 973, Area code 973, Area code 862)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Chemist
Jacob Bigeleisen was an American chemist who worked on the Manhattan Project on techniques to extract uranium-235 from uranium ore, an isotope that can sustain nuclear fission and would be used in developing an atomic bomb but that is less than 1% of naturally occurring uranium. While the method of using photochemistry that Bigeleisen used as an approach was not successful in isolating useful quantities of uranium-235 for the war effort, it did lead to the development of isotope chemistry, which takes advantage of the ways that different isotopes of an element interact to form chemical bonds.

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