Theodore William Richards, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1914

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Prof. Theodore William Richards, Ph.D.

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Birthplace: Germantown, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, United States
Death: April 02, 1928 (60)
Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States (Chronic respiratory problems and a prolonged depression.)
Immediate Family:

Son of William Trost Richards and Anna Richards
Husband of Miriam Stuart Richards; Private and Miriam Stuart Richards
Father of Private; Private; Private; Grace Thayer Conant; William Theodore Richards and 1 other
Brother of Archer Ellis Richards; Charles Matlack Richards; Eleanor French Price; Josephine Anna Richards; Anna Mary Brewster and 2 others

Occupation: Physical chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1914
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About Theodore William Richards, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1914

Theodore William Richards was 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."

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Theodore William Richards, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1914's Timeline

1868
January 31, 1868
Germantown, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, United States
1898
February 1, 1898
1900
March 24, 1900
1905
October 17, 1905
1928
April 2, 1928
Age 60
Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States