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What was Theodore William Richards famous for?

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Theodore William Richards was an American chemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1914 for his work in determining the atomic weight of a number of elements, including hydrogen. He is also known for his work on the isotope effect, which describes the effect of isotope substitution on the properties of a chemical compound.
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