Josiah Parsons Cooke
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Josiah Parsons Cooke was an American chemist who worked at Harvard University and was instrumental in the measurement of atomic weights, inspiring America's first Nobel laureate in chemistry, Theodore
Josiah Parsons Cooke
Josiah Parsons Cooke
Theodore William Richards
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Theodore William Richards was an American physical chemist and the first American scientist to receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, earning the award "in recognition of his exact determinations of th
Josiah Parsons Cooke
…who worked at Harvard University and was instrumental in the measurement of atomic weights, inspiring America's first Nobel laureate in chemistry, Theodore William Richards, to pursue similar research. Cooke's 1854 paper on atomic weights has been said to foreshadow the periodic law developed later by Mendeleev and others…
Richards in 1914
Graph of periodic properties by Richards
Determinations of atomic weights, 1910