Awards

NOBEL PRIZE

1914 Theodore W. Richards of the United States is awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry for determining the atomic weights of some sixty chemical elements, leading to the identification of isotopes, atoms with the same number of protons but with different numbers of neutrons. Dr. Richards was professor of chemistry at Harvard University.

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