Larned B. Asprey
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Larry and Marge Asprey with their family, celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary in 2004
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March 19, 1919 Sioux City, Iowa |
| Died | March 6, 2005 (aged 85) Mesilla Park, New Mexico |
| Nationality | United States |
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| Thesis | Equilibria in the oxide systems of praseodymium and americium (1949) |
| Doctoral advisor | Burris B. Cunningham |
| Known for | Actinide, lanthanide, rare earth and fluorine chemistry |
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Larned (Larry) Brown Asprey (March 19, 1919 – March 6, 2005) was an American chemist noted for his work on actinide, lanthanide, rare earth, and fluorine chemistry, and for his contributions to nuclear chemistry on the Manhattan Project and later at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Asprey was born in Sioux City, Iowa, on March 19, 1919, the son of Gladys Brown Asprey and Peter Asprey Jr. He had an older sister and a younger brother: mathematician and computer scientist Winifred Asprey, founder of Vassar College's computer science department, and military historian and writer Robert B. Asprey.
Asprey received a B.S. in chemical technology at Iowa State University in 1940, after which he took a job as an industrial chemist with the Campbell Soup Company in Chicago. He was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1941, and posted to Fort Warren, Wyoming. He applied for and was accepted into the Army Specialized Training Program, which allowed soldiers to continue their education for a time, and went to Ohio State University to continue his chemistry studies. In January 1944, he was assigned to the Manhattan Project's Special Engineer Detachment, with the rank of technician third grade.
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