Theodore William Richards
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Theodore William Richards was an American chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his precise determinations of atomic weights, which significantly advanced physical chemistry.
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| Theodore William Richards canonical | 2 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
Nobel laureate
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chemist ⓘ human ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Davy Medal
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Faraday Lectureship Prize NERFINISHED ⓘ Nobel Prize in Chemistry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heart disease ⓘ |
| contributedTo |
determination of Faraday constant
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improvement of calorimetric methods ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1868-01-31 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1928-04-02 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Harvard University ⓘ |
| employer | Harvard University ⓘ |
| familyName | Richards NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
atomic weight determination
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chemistry ⓘ physical chemistry ⓘ |
| givenName | Theodore NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAcademicAdvisor | Josiah Parsons Cooke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| honorificName | Richards Medal (named in his honor) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
development of physical chemistry
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standardization of atomic weights ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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National Academy of Sciences ⓘ Royal Society ⓘ |
| middleName | William NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | Nobel laureate in Chemistry 1914 ⓘ |
| notableFor |
advancing the accuracy of atomic weights in chemistry
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precise determinations of atomic weights ⓘ |
| notableStudent |
Gilbert N. Lewis
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James Bryant Conant NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | high-precision measurements of atomic weights of chemical elements ⓘ |
| occupation | chemist ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | professor of chemistry at Harvard University ⓘ |
| religion | Quaker ⓘ |
| residence | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| studied |
electrochemistry
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thermochemistry ⓘ |
| workLocation | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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