George Maxwell Richards
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Person
- Born
- 1931-12-01
- Died
- 2018-01-08
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A short history of<i>SHELX</i>
· 2007 · cited 79,624x
- Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test
· 1997 · cited 47,717x
- Crystal structure refinement with<i>SHELXL</i>
· 2015 · cited 39,972x
- Standards and guidelines for the interpretation of sequence variants: a joint consensus recommendation of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics and the Association for Molecular Pathology
· 2015 · cited 28,127x
- <i>SHELXT</i>– Integrated space-group and crystal-structure determination
· 2015 · cited 26,885x
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Key facts
- Prime minister
- Patrick Manning Kamla Persad-Bissessar
- Preceded by
- A. N. R. Robinson
- Succeeded by
- Anthony Carmona
- Born
- George Maxwell Richards , ( 1931-12-01 ) 1 December 1931, San Fernando , Trinidad and Tobago
- Died
- 8 January 2018 (2018-01-08) (aged 86), Port of Spain , Trinidad and Tobago
- Cause of death
- Heart failure
- Party
- Independent
- Spouse
- Jean Ramjohn
- Alma mater
- University of Manchester Pembroke College, Cambridge
- Occupation
- Politician engineer
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Key dates
- Born
- 1 December 1931
- Died
- 8 January 2018
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Richards
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Place of birth
- San Fernando
- Place of death
- Port of Spain
- Occupation
- engineer
- Educated at
- Pembroke College
- Employer
- University of the West Indies
- Native language
- English language
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HE George Maxwell Richards TC CM (1 December 1931 – 8 January 2018) was a Trinidadian politician who served as the fourth president of Trinidad and Tobago, from 2003 to 2013. He was the first president and head of state in the Caribbean to have mixed Chinese and Indigenous ancestry.
A chemical engineer by training, Richards was Principal of the St. Augustine campus of the University of the West Indies in Trinidad from 1984 to 1996. He previously worked for Shell Trinidad Ltd before joining the University of the West Indies in 1965. He was sworn into office as president on 17 March 2003 for a five-year term.
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