Theodore William Richards

Theodore William Richards
Kelahiran	(1868-01-31)31 Januari 1868 Germantown, Pennsylvania
Meninggal dunia	2 April 1928(1928-04-02) (umur 60) Cambridge, Massachusetts
Warganegara	Amerika Syarikat
Pusat pendidikan	Kolej Haverford Universiti Harvard
Terkenal kerana	Berat atom Termokimia Elektrokimia
Anugerah	Pingat Davy (1910) Anugerah Willard Gibbs (1912) Hadiah Nobel dalam Kimia (1914) Pingat Franklin (1916)
Kerjaya saintifik
Bidang	Kimia fizik
Institusi	Universiti Harvard
Penasihat kedoktoran	Josiah Parsons Cooke
Pelajar kedoktoran	Gilbert N. Lewis Farrington Daniels Malcolm Dole Charles Phelps Smyth Hobart Hurd Willard

Theodore William Richards (31 Januari 1868 – 2 April 1928) ialah ahli sains Amerika pertama yang menerima Hadiah Nobel dalam Kimia, memperoleh penghargaan "sebagai pengiktirafan terhadap penentuan tepatnya mengenai berat atom sejumlah besar unsur kimia."

Legasi dan penghargaan

• Lowell Lectures (1908)
• Davy Medal (1910)
• Faraday Lectureship (1911)
• Willard Gibbs Medal (1912)
• President of the American Chemical Society (1914)
• Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1914)
• Franklin Medal (1916)
• President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1917)
• Foreign Member of the Royal Society of London (1919)
• President of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences President (1919 – 1921)
• Lavoisier Medal (1922)
• Le Blanc Medal (1922)
• Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1923)
• Member of the International Atomic Weights Committee
• Theodore Richards Medal (1932, awarded posthumously)

Penulisan terpilih

• Richards, Theodore W. (1915). "Concerning the Compressibilities of the Elements, and Their Relations to Other Properties". Journal of the American Chemical Society. American Chemical Society. 37 (7): 1643–1656. doi:10.1021/ja02172a001. PMC 1090843.
• Richards, Theodore W.; Forbes, George Shannon (1906). "Energy Changes Involved in the Dilution of Zinc and Cadmium Amalgams". Carnegie Institution Report. Carnegie Institution of Washington: 1–68.
• Richards, Theodore W. (1913). The Scientific Work of Morris Loeb. Harvard University Press.

Bacaan lanjut

• Conant, James Bryant (1974). "Theodore William Richards". Biographical Memoirs. National Academy of Sciences (U.S.). 44. m/s. 251–286.
• Huddleston, John Henry (1907). Secretary's Report: Harvard Class of 1886. New York. m/s. 132–133.

Pautan luar

• Nobel Prize biography
• Theodore Richards Medal