Theodore William Richards
United States chemist (1868–1928)
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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.
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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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