Theodore William Richards (1868-1928) was an American physical chemist and the first American scientist to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, awarded in 1914 for his exact determinations of the atomic weights of a large number of chemical elements. His painstaking measurements helped establish the reliability of atomic weight data used throughout chemistry.
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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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