Theodore William Richards

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."[1][2]

Theodore William Richards
Kelahiran(1868-01-31)31 Januari 1868
Germantown, Pennsylvania
Meninggal dunia2 April 1928(1928-04-02) (umur 60)
WarganegaraAmerika Syarikat
Pusat pendidikanKolej Haverford
Universiti Harvard
Terkenal keranaBerat atom
Termokimia
Elektrokimia
AnugerahPingat Davy (1910)
Anugerah Willard Gibbs (1912)
Hadiah Nobel dalam Kimia (1914)
Pingat Franklin (1916)
Kerjaya saintifik
BidangKimia fizik
InstitusiUniversiti Harvard
Penasihat kedoktoranJosiah Parsons Cooke
Pelajar kedoktoranGilbert N. Lewis
Farrington Daniels
Malcolm Dole
Charles Phelps Smyth
Hobart Hurd Willard

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.

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