The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1915
Awarded on: 1915-11-11
"in recognition of his accurate determinations of the atomic weight of a large number of chemical elements"
Affiliations:
- Harvard University – Cambridge, MA, USA
Theodore William Richards
Born: 1868-01-31 in Germantown, PA, USA
Gender: male
Field: American chemist and Nobel laureate (1868–1928)
Biography
Theodore William Richards 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."