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Richards (THEODORE WILLIAM town Pa in He)

THEODORE WILLIAM, town, Pa., in 1868. He was educated at an American chemist, born at German- Haverford College, and the universities of Göttingen and Leipzig, and received ican and foreign universities. From 1894 many honorary degrees from many Amerto 1901 he was assistant professor and after that, professor of chemistry, at Harvard University. From 1903 to 1911 ment of this institution and in 1912 behe was chairman of the chemical depart- Laboratory. In 1907 he served as excame director of the Gibbs Memorial change professor from Harvard at the University of Berlin, in 1908 he was search associate of the Carnegie Institu- Lowell lecturer, and in 1902 became retion. During the World War he was a member of the National Research Council and consulting chemist of the Bureau of Mines. With the help of his assistants he revised the atomic weights of many Mines. the help of his assistants elements. His investigations covered important branches of physical and inorganic chemistry, on which subjects he has published many important papers He was a member and at times an officer of numerous American and foreign scisocieties. Besides the Davy medal of the Royal Society (1910), the Faraday medal of the Chemical Society (1911), the Chemical Society (1912), and the Franklin medal of the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia (1915), he was also awarded the Nobel prize in chemistry in 1915.

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