Theodore William Richards
United States chemist (1868–1928)
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Early 1900s physical chemist who became the first American to win a Nobel Prize in Chemistry, largely for obsessively nailing down atomic weights with unprecedented precision.
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Theodore William Richards 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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