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Turkevich married Ireene ("Renee") in September 1948. They had a son and a daughter. Turkevich had two brothers. His elder brother, John Turkevich (1907 – 1998), was Eugene Higgins Professor of Chemistry at Princeton, and his younger brother, Nicholas L. Turkevich (1918 – 2007), was an
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Turkevich returned to the Department of Chemistry at the University of Chicago as an assistant professor in 1946. In July 1946, Turkevich and Seymour Katcoff suggested that nuclear explosions could be monitored by measuring the atmospheric concentration of the radioactive isotope
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was feasible, one of many challenges faced by scientists at Los Alamos that led to the development and use of the
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proposing that atmospheric sampling could be used to estimate the number of fissions that had occurred in
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He also worked on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy. For this latter work, he received the 1969
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international advertising executive. Anthony Turkevich died on September 7, 2002, in
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and obtained his bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1937. He completed his Ph.D. at
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or "Met Lab", at the University of Chicago. He investigated the separation of
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Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
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who was the first to determine the composition of the
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and the radiochemistry of reactor products, such as
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Turkevich moved to the Department of Physics at the
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Economou (2009). 587:20th-century American chemists 533:FORD BURKHART (6 April 1998). 1: 617:University of Chicago faculty 219:as a research assistant with 161:alpha scattering spectrometer 274:, the first detonation of a 270:, and was involved with the 612:Princeton University alumni 328:atmospheric atom bomb tests 223:where he studied molecular 638: 520:Princeton Weekly Bulletin 286:'s theory group to study 142: 125: 36: 622:Manhattan Project people 607:Dartmouth College alumni 262:, that are generated by 244:Metallurgical Laboratory 229:nuclear fission products 171:Early life and education 149:Anthony Leonid Turkevich 31:Anthony Leonid Turkevich 553:"Nicholas L. Turkevich" 393:Schmemann, Alexander. 280:Alamogordo, New Mexico 463:Wasserburg, Gerald J. 430:; Robert N. 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Anthony Turkevich

Manhattan
New York
Lexington, Virginia
Dartmouth College
Princeton University
E. O. Lawrence Award
Atoms for Peace Award
Radiochemistry
radiochemist
Moon
alpha scattering spectrometer
Surveyor 5
Manhattan
New York
Saint Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral
Leonid Turkevich
Metropolitan
Orthodox Church in North America
Dartmouth College
Princeton University
University of Chicago
Robert Mulliken
spectroscopy
nuclear fission products
World War II
Manhattan Project
Metallurgical Laboratory
uranium isotopes

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