Professor Brickwedde, who obtained his Ph.D. in physics from the Johns Hopkins University in 1925, had a distinguished research and academic career. Most notably a co-discoverer of deuterium, a heavy isotope of hydrogen, he was long associated with the National Bureau of Standards and was Dean of the College of Chemistry and Physics at Pennsylvania State Universty from 1956 to 1963. He was Evan Pugh Research Professor of Physics Emeritus there until his death on March 29, 1989
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