Theodore William Richards
American chemist and Nobel laureate (1868–1928) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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]
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Theodore William Richards | |
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Born | (1868-01-31)January 31, 1868 |
Died | April 2, 1928(1928-04-02) (aged 60) |
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 |
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