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Register lines · the biography is the People leg's whole and is not re-told here
The discipline: Harold Clayton Urey was born in Walkerton on April 29, 1893, and the tie ends close to there — his family removed to Montana, he was raised and schooled there, and no record puts him in a Walkerton schoolroom. His honors therefore print in this section as a register, at birth-tie strength, without the biography the People leg carries whole. The register: Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1934, for the discovery of deuterium; Willard Gibbs Award, 1934; Davy Medal, 1940; Franklin Medal, 1943; Medal for Merit, 1946 — the nation's highest civilian decoration of its war years, and a civilian award to a civilian scientist: the Wars leg boundary-prints it there so it is never read as a soldier's decoration, and this section keeps the same line; Foreign Member of the Royal Society, 1947; J. Lawrence Smith Medal, 1962; National Medal of Science, 1964; Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1966; Priestley Medal, 1973; V. M. Goldschmidt Award, 1975. Named for him, and standing in the town today: the Harold C. Urey Middle School, and a birthplace marker in Walkerton itself — American Legion Post 189's own marker, whose text this build has since read whole (carried in this section's W-11 addendum below); the Indiana Historical Bureau's Urey state marker stands at Corunna, in DeKalb County. The National Medal of Science line matters to this section's register below: Walkerton's one national-medal name is a birth-tie, and it prints as one everywhere in this build.
Sources
- This build's People leg — Urey's honors roll, verified first-hand there (Nobel Foundation; Encyclopaedia Britannica) and followed here without re-telling.
- This build's Wars leg — the Medal for Merit's civilian boundary, printed there.
- The Historical Marker Database record, via the Wars leg — the in-town marker's existence and siting; its text unreached, as flagged.