January 31, 1868 (Boshin the first month, seventh day), the American chemist Richards's birthday.

1868 January 31, 2010, (TodayinHistory.cn) Richards's death "target =" _blank "> Richards was born in Pennsylvania Germanic town, his father is a well-known marine landscape painter, mother of a poet. (TodayinHistory.cn) Richards since childhood intelligence, and is very hard to learn, hi quiet, very quiet, often contemplative some problems during the secondary school, he is very interested in the chemical on, determined to do one in the future chemist in college, (lssjt.cn) he the famous Belgian chemist StarTech proposed calendar academia recognized atomic weight table questioned, ridiculed by classmates and teachers, he is young and bold, lip service, Some even think that he is arrogant and ignorant. however, he still insists on own doubts.
Richards' 17-year-old university graduate, get a Bachelor of Science degree with honors. then he read the liberal arts, in succession to obtain a Bachelor of Arts and a master's degree. However, his ambition is still to study chemistry. Richards get a doctorate in 1888, when he was just 20 years old, this is Harvard University's youngest-ever Ph.D., so he was hired as a famous chemist at Harvard University laboratory Cook Professor Assistant Professor Cook, he developed a practical and realistic meticulous scholarship spirit.
in order to determine the right and wrong of the Costa atomic weight table, he the StarTech did about experiments are one to be re-approved he doing experiments, engrossed, sleepless nights, a careful analysis of every aspect, and sometimes even a hundred times thousands of times to repeat the experiment. It was with this drill Jin and tenacity, he and his students has accurately determined the atomic weight of copper, barium, strontium, calcium, zinc, magnesium, iron, cobalt, uranium, etc. 20 a variety of elements, that the previous error and causing the error reasons proposed he measured by atomic weight table, and be recognized by national experts. Richards Therefore, the 1914 Nobel Chemistry prize.