# Theodore William Richards

> The first American to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, awarded in 1914 for work so painstaking it redefined precision: measuring the atomic weights of elements with an accuracy no one had managed before.

*United States chemist (1868–1928)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Scientist ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Scientists
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1868-01-31
- **Died:** 1928-04-02
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Theodore William Richards was born January 31, 1868, into a world where the periodic table was still new and its numbers uncertain. He became a physical chemist who made atomic weight determination his life's work — not flashy, but foundational. The Nobel committee recognized him "in recognition of his exact determinations of the atomic weights of a large number of the chemical elements," a citation that understates the obsessive rigor required. He died April 2, 1928, having given chemistry the numbers it could trust.

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## Topics
#Scientists, #Scientist, #Chemistry, #United States, #Americas, #19th Century

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