Harold C.
Urey
Professor of Chemistry
University of California, San Diego
1964
Earth & Environment
For outstanding contributions to our understanding of the origin and evolution of the solar system and the origin of life on Earth and for pioneering work in the application of isotopes to the determination of the temperatures of ancient oceans.
Presented by President Johnson at a White House Ceremony in the East Room on February 8, 1965.
Nobel Prize in Physics, 1934