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... Wikipedia
Born: January 31, 1868, Germantown, Philadelphia, PA
Died: April 2, 1928 (age 60 years), Cambridge, MA
Education: Harvard University and Haverford College
Awards: Davy Medal, Willard Gibbs Award, Franklin Medal, and more
Parents: William Trost Richards and Anna Matlack Richards
Nationality: American