Aristid von Grosse
BornJanuary 1905
Riga, Russian Empire
DiedJuly 21, 1985 (1985-07-22) (aged 80)
Laguna Hills, California, United States
Known forisolation of pure protactinium and some of its compounds
Scientific career
FieldsActinide chemistry
InstitutionsKaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry, University of Chicago
Doctoral advisorKarl Andreas Hofmann, Otto Hahn

Aristid von Grosse (January 1905 – July 21, 1985) was a German nuclear chemist. During his work with Otto Hahn, he got access to waste material from radium production, and with this starting material he was able in 1927 to isolate protactinium(V) oxide[1] and was later able to produce metallic protactinium[2][3] by decomposition of protactinium(V) iodide.

From 1948 to 1969, he was president of the Research Institute of Temple University and was later affiliated with the laboratories of the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia until his retirement in 1979.[4] In 1971, he received a United States Atomic Energy Commission award in recognition of his "outstanding contributions to the development of nuclear energy."[4]

Aristid was born in Riga in January 1905[5] and moved to the United States in 1930. He retired in 1979 and died of pneumonia in Laguna Hills, California on July 21, 1985.[4]

References

  1. ^ von Grosse, Aristid (1928). "Das Element 91; seine Eigenschaften und seine Gewinnung" [Element 91: Its properties and its extraction]. Berichte der deutschen chemischen Gesellschaft (in German). 61 (1): 233–245. doi:10.1002/cber.19280610137.
  2. ^ von Grosse, Aristid (1934). "Element 91". Science. 80 (2084): 512–516. Bibcode:1934Sci....80..512G. doi:10.1126/science.80.2084.512. PMID 17734249.
  3. ^ von Grosse, Aristid (1935). "Zur Herstellung von Protactinium" [For the production of protactinium]. Berichte der deutschen chemischen Gesellschaft (A and B Series) (in German). 68 (2): 307–309. doi:10.1002/cber.19350680218.
  4. ^ a b c "Aristid V. Grosse, 80; Did A-Bomb Research". The New York Times. July 23, 1985. p. 18. Retrieved May 1, 2019.
  5. ^ von Grosse, Aristid (January 11, 1974). "Interview of Aristid Grosse – Session I". Niels Bohr Library & Archives (Interview). Interviewed by Charles Weiner. Philadelphia: American Institute of Physics.
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