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Theodore William Richards

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Theodore William Richards

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Also known as Theodore Richards

United States chemist (1868–1928)

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Theodore William Richards was an American chemist who lived from 1868 to 1928 and made significant contributions to his field. He is notable as an important figure in the history of American chemistry during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Born
1868
Died
1928
Works
16

Top works

  • The use of the transition temperatures of complex ys tems as fixed pointts in thermometry
  • Some electrochemical and thermochemical relations of zinc and cadmium amalgams. By Theodore William Richards and Gilbert Newton Lewis
  • A revision of the atomic weight of cobalt
  • Ideals of chemical investigation
  • A partial substitute for examinations

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. VMD: Visual molecular dynamics

    · 1996 · cited 62,950x

  2. Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure

    · 1976 · cited 44,827x

  3. Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water

    · 1983 · cited 39,551x

  4. QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

    · 2010 · cited 30,946x

  5. 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 29,118x

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Chemistry1914

    “in recognition of his accurate determinations of the atomic weight of a large number of chemical elements”

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Encyclopedic overview

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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