Arthur Wahl

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name = Arthur Wahl


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birth_date = birth date|1917|9|8|mf=y
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death_date = March 6 2006
death_place = Santa Fe, NM
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citizenship = USA
nationality = USA
ethnicity = White
field = Chemistry
work_institution = Washington University, St. Louis, MO
alma_mater = Iowa State University (B.S.) and University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D.)
doctoral_advisor = Glenn T. Seabog
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known_for = Plutonium purification
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Arthur Wahl (September 8, 1917 – April 2006) was an American Chemist who, as a PhD graduate student, under Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg at UC-Berkeley, in February 1941, was the first to isolate plutonium in a laboratory. He also worked on the Manhattan Project.