Leo Brewer
Leo Brewer · Science & Medicine
Physical chemist known for high-temperature thermodynamics
1919, St. Louis, Missouri, USA — 2005, Lafayette, California, USA
United States
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Leo Brewer was an American physical chemist at the University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, regarded as a founder of modern high-temperature chemistry and thermodynamics. He worked on plutonium chemistry during the Manhattan Project and later developed theories of metallic bonding. He was Jewish.
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Physical chemist known for high-temperature thermodynamics
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