Background
Richards, Theodore William was born on January 31, 1868 in Germantown, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of William T. (artist) and Anna (Matlack) R. (author).
Richards, Theodore William was born on January 31, 1868 in Germantown, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of William T. (artist) and Anna (Matlack) R. (author).
Bachelor of Science Haverford College, 1885. Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1886, Master of Arts, Doctor of Philosophy, 1888. Chemical student, university of Göttingen, Leipzig and Technology School, Dresden.
Doctor of Science, Yale, 1905.
Doctor of Laws, Haverford, 1908. Chem.D., Clark University, 1909.
Doctor of Philosophy, Royal Bohemian University, Prague, 1909. Doctor of Science, Harvard, 1910.
Doctor of Medicine Berlin University, 1910.
Doctor of Science, Cambridge (England), Oxford, Manchester, 1911. Doctor of Philosophy, Christiania, Norway, 1911. Doctor of Laws, University of Pittsburgh, 1915, University of Pennsylvania, 1920.
Doctor of Science, Princeton University, 1923.
Of Professor J. H. Thayer, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 28, 1896. Children—Grace Thayer (wife of Professor James Bryant Conant), William Theodore, Greenough Thayer. Assistant professor, 1894-1901, professor of chemistry, since 1901, chairman chemical department, 1903-1911, director Gibbs Memorial Laboratory, since 1912, Harvard.
Exchange professor from Harvard to Berlin University, 1907.
Lowell lecturer, 1908. Member International Committee on Elements and Atomic Weights.
Adviser Carnegie Institution, 1902, research associate, since 1902, Davy medalist, Royal Society, 1910. Faraday lecturer and medalist, Chemical Society, 1911.
Willard Gibbs medalist, American Chemical Society, 1912.
Nobel laureate in chemistry, 1914 (awarded 1915). Franklin medal, Franklin Institute, 1916. Lavoisier and Le Blanc medalist (Paris), 1922.
Member National Research Council and allied committees, 1916. Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences (president 1919-1921), American Association for the Advancement of Science (president 1917). Officier de la Chevalier de la Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur’Honneur’Honneur, 1925.
Married Miriam Stuart, daughter Children: Grace Thayer (wife of Professor.