Theodore William Richards

Theodore William Richards

Theodore William Richards: apostle of atomic weights and Nobel Prize winner in 1914.

In recognition of his exact determinations of the atomic weights of a large number of the chemical elements, T. W. Richards received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1914. His meticulous techniques resulted in "a degree of accuracy never before attained". This Essay follows Richards from his precocious youth to becoming a celebrated chemist and emphasizes his dedication to forseeing likely sourc...

Theodore Xenophon Barber.

Chemistry: Richards and Boyer

remains to be done in order that perfect certainty may be attained, nevertheless the outcome must be regarded as promising in pointing toward an adequate and convenient method of separating gallium from other metals. Three fractional samples of the chloride discussed in the previous section were analyzed, using the usual methods employed in Harvard University in order to make a preliminary dete...

Professor Theodore A . Burton

T. A. Burton (denoted by T. A. throughout this paper) was born on September 7, 1935 on a farm in Kansas, the fifth child of seven in the family. It was a peak of the Great Depression and when the dust storms wrecked havoc on the Mid-Western United States. Entire buildings were buried in the dust. The economy was so poor that farmers turned their livestock loose and left the area. At the age of ...