| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Chemistry | 
| Year: | 1912 | 
| Number: | 22 - 0 | 
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| Nominee: 
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| Name: | Theodore W Richards | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1868 | 
| Year, Death: | 1928 | 
| University: | Harvard University | 
| City: | Cambridge | 
| State: | MA | 
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1914 | 
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| Nominator: 
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| Name: | Wilhelm  Ostwald | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1853 | 
| Year, Death: | 1932 | 
| Profession: | member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, NP che 1909 | 
| University: | Leipzig University | 
| City: | Leipzig | 
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1909 | 
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| Comments: | Richards recieved the 1914 prize in chemistry in 1915. | 
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