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Theodore William Richards Bio

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Theodore William Richards (1868 - 1928)

Theodore William Richards (1868 - 1928)

Nobel Prize Foundation

Theodore William Richards:

Theodore William Richards was an American chemist and Nobel laureate.

Birth:

January 31, 1868 in Germantown, Pennsylvania

Death:

April 2, 1928, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Claim to Fame:

Richards was an American chemist who determined accurate measurements of elemental atomic weights suggesting the existence of isotopes. He was awarded the 1914 Nobel Prize in recognition of his work in this area.

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