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Theodore William Richards

1868 - 1928

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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." Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Theodore William Richards is the 96th most popular chemist (down from 79th in 2019), the 504th most popular biography from United States (up from 543rd in 2019) and the 16th most popular American Chemist.

Theodore William Richards was a chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1914 for his work on the atomic weights of various chemical elements.

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Among chemists, Theodore William Richards ranks 96 out of 602. Before him are Thomas Midgley Jr., Theodor Svedberg, Valery Legasov, M. Stanley Whittingham, Edward Adelbert Doisy, and Heinrich Otto Wieland. After him are William Howard Stein, Arne Tiselius, Stanford Moore, Konrad Emil Bloch, Vincent du Vigneaud, and Joseph Black.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Theodore William Richards ranks 21. Before him are James Connolly, Gichin Funakoshi, Émile Bernard, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, Fuad I of Egypt, and Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse. After him are Peter Behrens, Paul Claudel, S. P. L. Sørensen, Gertrude Bell, Gaston Leroux, and Gustav Meyrink. Among people deceased in 1928, Theodore William Richards ranks 10. Before him are Wilhelm Wien, Maria Feodorovna, Leoš Janáček, Max Scheler, Édouard-Henri Avril, and Emmeline Pankhurst. After him are Johannes Fibiger, Franz Stuck, Wilhelm Karl, Duke of Urach, Pyotr Wrangel, Alexander Bogdanov, and Luigi Cadorna.

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Among people born in United States, Theodore William Richards ranks 504 out of 20,380. Before him are Rutherford B. Hayes (1822), Fred Astaire (1899), Eddie Fisher (1928), James Fenimore Cooper (1789), John Tyler (1790), and Miles Davis (1926). After him are Gene Kelly (1912), William Howard Stein (1911), Billie Holiday (1915), Jack Kerouac (1922), Jessica Lange (1949), and Katherine Johnson (1918).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Theodore William Richards ranks 16. Before him are Wendell Meredith Stanley (1904), Gertrude B. Elion (1918), Robert S. Mulliken (1896), James B. Sumner (1887), Thomas Midgley Jr. (1889), and Edward Adelbert Doisy (1893). After him are William Howard Stein (1911), Stanford Moore (1913), Vincent du Vigneaud (1901), Irving Langmuir (1881), Melvin Calvin (1911), and Gilbert N. Lewis (1875).

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