After WWII, where did Urey become a chemistry professor?
Institute for Nuclear Studies
MIT
Stanford University
Caltech
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The Institute for Nuclear Studies at the University of Chicago, where Enrico Fermi created the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction in 1942, became Urey's new academic home after World War II. There, he focused on developing the hydrogen bomb and later served as the institute's director from 1958 to 1962
Mastering the Elements: The Life and Work of Harold Urey
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