Harry Thode

____arry Thode was born in Dundurn, Saskatchewan and attended
____the University of Saskatchewan (Murray, 1991). He took chemistry and physics (Murray, 1991). Thode was a pioneer in nuclear research and was highly involved with the atomic energy project in Montreal, Québec. He worked on the use of atomic energy in war (Murray, 1991). Thode worked with Harold Urey, the discoverer of deuterium oxide (Murray, 1991). Thode built Canada’s first mass spectrometer, a machine that measures the mass of isotopes (Murray, 1991). Thode worked on uranium fission and allowed for the CANDU reactor to exist (Murray, 1991).