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People

Benoni Urey Benoni Wilfred Urey (born 22 June 1957) is an Americo-Liberian businessman and politician, who was formerly the Liberian Commissioner of Maritime Affairs. In 2014 ''The Economist'' reported that Urey was Liberia's wealthiest man.Daniel Salamanca Urey Daniel Domingo Salamanca Urey (8 July 1869 – 17 July 1935) was a Bolivian lawyer and politician who served as the 33rd president of Bolivia from 1931 to 1934. He was overthrown in a ''coup d'état'' on 27 November 1934, during the country' ...

(1869–1935), president of Bolivia *

Harold Urey Harold Clayton Urey ( ; April 29, 1893 – January 5, 1981) was an American physical chemist whose pioneering work on isotopes earned him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1934 for the discovery of deuterium. He played a significant role in the ...

(1893-1981), American physical chemist *

Urey Fedorovich Lisianski Yuri Fyodorovich Lisyansky (; ; – 6 March 1837) was an explorer and officer in the Imperial Russian Navy. He served as a volunteer in the British Royal Navy and later headed the first Russian circumnavigation aboard the ''Neva''. He was also ...

(1773–1837), explorer and officer in the Imperial Russian Navy *

Urey Woodson Urey Woodson (August 16, 1859 - August 7, 1939) was a Kentucky Democrat and a newspaper editor and publisher. Biography He was the Kentucky railroad commissioner from 1891 to 1895. He was a member of Democratic National Committee from Kentucky fr ...

(1859–1939), American politician, and newspaper editor and publisher

Other uses

* 4716 Urey, a minor planet *

Urey (crater) Urey is a Lunar craters, lunar impact crater located in the narrow niche of terrain between the western halves of the craters Rayleigh (lunar crater), Rayleigh and Lyapunov (crater), Lyapunov. It lies near the east-northeastern limb of the Moon ...

, a lunar impact crater *

Urey instrument The Urey instrument, or Urey: Mars Organic and Oxidant Detector was a developmental spacecraft instrument for detecting organic compounds including amino acids. Overview It was funded by NASA and tested in the Atacama Desert in the early 2000s. Ur ...

(or Urey: Mars Organic and Oxidant Detector), a developmental spacecraft instrument for detecting organic compounds *

Urey Medal The Urey Medal is given annually by the European Association of Geochemistry for outstanding contributions advancing Geochemistry over a career. The award is named after the physical chemist Harold Urey, FRS. Urey Medalists See also * List ...

, given annually by the European Association of Geochemistry