Richards
Richards names 5 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Richards THEODORE WILLIAM, an American chemist town
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
THEODORE WILLIAM, an American chemist town, Pa., in 1868. He was educated at , born at German- Haverford College, and the universities of Göttingen and Leipzig, and received many honorary ican and foreign universities. From 1894 degrees from many Amerto 1901 he was assistant professor and after that, professor of chemistry, at Harvard University. From 1903 to 1911 he was chairman of the chemical department of this institution and in 1912 became director of the Laboratory. In 1907 he served as ex- Gibbs Memorial change professor from Harvard at the University of Berlin, in 1908 he was Lowell lecturer search associate of the Carnegie Institu- , 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. the help of his assistants he revised the atomic weights of many elements. His investigations covered important branches of physical and inorganic chemistry, on which subjects he He was a member and at times an officer has published many important papers of numerous American and foreign scientific societies. Besides the Davy medal of the Royal Society (1910), the Faraday medal of the Chemical Society (1911), the Willard Gibbs medal of the American 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.
Richards WILLIAM TROST, an American landscape and marine painter
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WILLIAM TROST, an American landscape and marine painter; born in Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 14, 1833. He was a student of Paul Weber and later studied in Europe, at Florence, Rome, and Paris. From 1878 till 1880, he had a studio in London, England. He was an honorary member of the National Academy. At the Metropolitan Museum, in New York City, is a series of 47 watercolor marines and landscapes, painted by him in 1871-1876. His "Wissahickon" was on exhibition at the Centennial Exposition in 1876. In the Corcoran Art Gallery, Washington, D. C., is hung his "On the Coast of New Jersey." Among his best-known paintings in oil are: "Midsummer" (1862); "Woods in June" (1864); "Land's End" (1880); "Old Ocean's Gray and Melancholy Waste" (1885). He died at Newport, R. I., Nov. 8, 1905.
Richards JOSEPH WILLIAM, an American metallurgist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JOSEPH WILLIAM, an American metallurgist, born in Oldbury, England , in 1864. He was educated at the Central High School of Philadelphia, the Lehigh University, University of Heidelberg, and the Mining Academy of Freiberg. Beginning with 1887 he was successively instructor, assistant professor, acting professor , and professor of metallurgy at Lehigh University. From 1907 to 1910 he was also professor of electro-chemistry at the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia. He frequently acted as legal expert in chemical and metallurgical cases. During the World War he was a member of the United States Navy Consulting Board. He was a member, and at times an officer, of many domestic and foreign scientific societies. Among his publications are "Aluminium " (1887); "Metallurgical (1906-7); "Non-ferrous
Richards BRINLEY, a British pianist and composer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
BRINLEY, a British pianist and composer; born in Carmarthen, Wales, in 1819; began to study music at the Royal Academy in London about 1835; and on the completion of his studies soon won a good position in London as a pianist and teacher of music. He was for many years a professor of the Royal Academy. His compositions for sacred and part songs and for the pianoforte won great popularity, especially his "God Bless the Prince of Wales." Richards bestowed much attention on the study and encouragement of Welsh music. He died May 1, 1865.
Richards LAURA ELIZABETH, an American writer of juvenile books
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
LAURA ELIZABETH, an American writer of juvenile books, daughter of Julia Ward Howe; born in Daughter of Julia ardh a great number of children's books, among them: "Five Mice" (1880); "Our Baby's Favorite" (1881); "Tell-Tale from Hill and Dale" (1886); and "Toto's Merry Winter" (1887); "Captain January" (1890); "Nautilus" (1895); "Love and Rocks" (1898); "Snow White" (1900); "Letters and Journals of Sam- Bridley uel Howe" (1906-1909); "Two ( 1911); " Julia Ward ( with her sister Maude " Daughter of Jehu " (1918); "Joan of Arc" (1919).
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's wrote in 1921 while two of these five were still living: Theodore William Richards, whose Nobel prize the entry notes (awarded for 1914 and presented in 1915, the first ever to an American chemist), died at Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1928, and his painstaking atomic-weight determinations later proved important evidence for the existence of isotopes, since lead from different radioactive sources gave different weights. Joseph William Richards, the Lehigh metallurgist, died the same year the volume appeared. The date given for the Welsh pianist Brinley Richards is an error: he died on 1 May 1885, not 1865, and his God Bless the Prince of Wales is still sung. Laura E. Richards, listed here with a long shelf of children's books, lived until 1943; her Captain January became a Shirley Temple film in 1936, and her life of her mother Julia Ward Howe, written with her sister Maud, had already won the first Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1917, which the entry does not mention.
Written for this edition, 2026.