| Aristid von Grosse | |
| Birth Date: | January 1905 |
| Birth Place: | Riga, Russian Empire |
| Death Place: | Laguna Hills, California, United States |
| Field: | Actinide chemistry |
| Work Institution: | Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry, University of Chicago |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Karl Andreas Hofmann, Otto Hahn |
| Known For: | isolation of pure protactinium and some of its compounds |
Aristid von Grosse (January 1905 - July 21, 1985) was a German nuclear chemist. During his work with Otto Hahn, he got access to waste material from radium production, and with this starting material he was able in 1927 to isolate protactinium(V) oxide[1] and was later able to produce metallic protactinium[2] [3] by decomposition of protactinium(V) iodide.
From 1948 to 1969, he was president of the Research Institute of Temple University and was later affiliated with the laboratories of the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia until his retirement in 1979.[4] In 1971, he received a United States Atomic Energy Commission award in recognition of his "outstanding contributions to the development of nuclear energy."
Aristid was born in Riga in January 1905[5] and moved to the United States in 1930. He retired in 1979 and died of pneumonia in Laguna Hills, California on July 21, 1985.