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Theodore W. Richards House

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Theodore W. Richards House 15 Follen Street, Cambridge, MA IMG 4052
Theodore W. Richards House 15 Follen Street, Cambridge, MA IMG 4052

The Theodore W. Richards House is a National Historic Landmark at 15 Follen Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Built in 1900, it was the home until his death of Theodore William Richards (1868-1928), the first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Richards was a leading experimental chemist of his day, measuring (as precisely as instruments of the day permitted) the atomic weights of a large number of elements. He was also responsible for the growth of Harvard University's graduate chemistry program to one of the finest in the nation. The house was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1976.

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Theodore W. Richards House
Follen Street, Cambridge

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02163 Cambridge
Massachusetts, United States
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