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

Background to the Nobel Prize to the Braggs.

The Nobel Committees have to follow the nominations submitted for a specific year. During the early phase of X-ray crystallography, a limited number of scientists were active. In 1914 Max von Laue and William Henry Bragg were both nominated and could have been awarded a joint Nobel Prize. However, a member of the Nobel Committee for Physics, Allvar Gullstrand, was well aware of the activities i...

What is Aperiodic Order?

Crystals with their regular shape and pronounced faceting have fascinated humans for ages. About a century ago, the understanding of the internal structure increased considerably through the work of Max von Laue (Nobel prize in physics 1914) and William Henry Bragg and William Lawrence Bragg (father and son, joint Nobel prize in physics 1915). They developed X-ray crystallography and used it to...

A Strong Field and a Deserving Winner

Medical History is delighted to announce the winner of the 2014 William Bynum Prize: Clare Leeming-Latham’s wonderful essay titled ‘Unravelling the “tangled web”: Chemotherapy for Tuberculosis in Britain, 1940–70’. We are also pleased to announce a set of joint runners up: Elisa González (‘Nurturing the Citizens of the Future: Milk Stations and Child Nutrition in Puerto Rico, 1929–60’) and Anne...

Theodore William Richards

of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology

PAST PRECISION MEASUREMENT GRANT HOLDER WINS NOBEL PRIZE The 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics will be shared by two JILA fellows, Eric Cornell of NIST and Carl Wieman of the University of Colorado, and Wolfgang Ketterle of MIT for their work on Bose-Einstein condensation of atoms. In 1979, Carl Wieman, then at the University of Michigan, was awarded a NIST Precision Measurement Grant. This brings to...