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Theodore William Richards
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Theodore William Richards

1868 – 1928 · aged 60

United States chemist (1868–1928)

Born
31 Jan 1868 · Germantown
Died
2 Apr 1928 · Cambridge

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 69 years
  1. 31 Jan 1868BornBorn in Germantown
  2. 1910AwardDavy Medal
  3. 1911AwardFaraday Lectureship Prize
  4. 1912AwardWillard Gibbs Award
  5. 1914AwardNobel Prize in Chemistry
  6. 1916AwardFranklin Medal
  7. 1919AwardForeign Member of the Royal Society
  8. 1922AwardLavoisier Medal
  9. 2 Apr 1928DiedDied in Cambridge

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1868 – 1928).

  1. 1870 – 1871Franco-Prussian War
  2. 18961896 Summer Olympics
  3. 1898Spanish–American War
  4. 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
  5. 1914 – 1918World War I
  6. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  7. 1917Balfour Declaration
  8. 1917February Revolution
  9. 1917October Revolution
  10. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  11. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  12. 1920Treaty of Versailles

Biography

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."

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