Theodore William Richards | |
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 Richards in 1914 | |
| Born | January 31, 1868 Germantown, Pennsylvania, U.S |
| Died | April 2, 1928 (aged 60) Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Haverford College Harvard University |
| Known for | Atomic weights Thermochemistry Electrochemistry |
| Awards | Davy Medal (1910) Willard Gibbs Award (1912) Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1914) Franklin Medal (1916) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physical chemistry |
| Institutions | Harvard University |
| Doctoral advisor | Josiah Parsons Cooke[citation needed](see Kopperl: "Theodore W. Richards: America's First Nobel Laureate Chemist", in Profiles in Chemistry, in Journal of Chemical Education, 1983, Vol. 60, Issue 9, page 738. |
| Doctoral students | Gilbert N. Lewis Farrington Daniels Malcolm Dole Charles Phelps Smyth Hobart Hurd Willard James B. Conant |
Theodore William Richards (January 31, 1868 – April 2, 1928) was an American physical chemist and the first American scientist to receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, earning the award "in recognition of his exact determinations of the atomic weights of a large number of the chemical elements."[1]
- ^ "Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1914 - Presentation". Retrieved 2007-12-24.