Theodore William Richards

Theodore William Richards
Richards in 1914
Born	(1868-01-31)January 31, 1868 Germantown, Pennsylvania
Died	April 2, 1928(1928-04-02) (aged 60) Cambridge, Massachusetts
Nationality	American
Education	Haverford College Harvard University
Known for	Atomic weights Thermochemistry Electrochemistry
Awards	Davy Medal (1910) Willard Gibbs Award (1912) Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1914) Franklin Medal (1916)
Scientific career
Fields	Physical chemistry
Institutions	Harvard University
Doctoral advisor	Josiah Parsons Cooke[citation needed](see Kopperl: "Theodore W. Richards: America's First Nobel Laureate Chemist", in Profiles in Chemistry, in Journal of Chemical Education, 1983, Vol. 60, Issue 9, page 738.
Doctoral students	Gilbert N. Lewis Farrington Daniels Malcolm Dole Charles Phelps Smyth Hobart Hurd Willard James B. Conant

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."^[1]