[meteorite-list] NPA 02-16-1979 China Opens, Urey gets Jilin Meteorite

[MARK BOSTICK]

Paper: The Gettysburg Times
City: Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Date: Friday, February 16, 1979
Page: 12 (of 20)

CHINESE GIFT

     SAN DIEGO, Calif (AP) - In an unexpected goodwill gesture, two 
scientists in the People's Republic of China have sent Nobel laureate Harold 
Urey a small fragment of a 2-ton meteorite that showed northeastern China in 
1976.
     "Maybe this is part of the opening up of China." Dr. Urey said.  "We've 
tried to cooperate with them before and haven’t succeeded very well."
     Urey, a 86-year-old professor emeritus of chemistry at the University 
of California at San Diego, won the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1934 for 
the discovery of heavy hydrogen.

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