Facts: - caption: mikkel frandsen - death date: 1981 - work institution: national bureau of standards , - birth date: 1892 - name: mikkel frandsen - image: mfrandsen.jpg - birth place: ringkbing-skjern municipality , denmark - alma mater: university of california Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of mikkel frandsen .
mikkel frandsen -lrb- 1892 -- 1981 -rrb- was a danish american physical chemist noted for experiments involving chemical thermodynamics , oil , and heavy water .also known as deuterium oxide -lrb- d2o -rrb- , heavy water is used to produce nuclear power and is used in other nuclear applications such as nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy .