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Show oo NOBEL PRIZES ARE AWARDED German Professor and Theodore Theo-dore William Richards of Harvard Given Honors. London, Nov. 12, 0:20 a. m. The Nobel prize for physics for 1914, says a Reuter despatch from Stockholm, has been awarded to Prof. Max von Laus, of Frankfort-on-Maiu, for his discovery of the diffraction of rays In crystals The chemistry prize for the same year, has been awarded to Prof. Theodore William Richards, of Harvard university fqr fixing the atomic- weights of dimical elements. The prizes for 1915 will be awarded today. Cambridge, Mass.. Nov. 12. Professor Pro-fessor Theodore William Richards of Harvard University, to whom tho Nobel prize for 1014 has been awarded for fixing tho atomic weights of chemical chem-ical elements, is director of the Gibbs Memorial Laboratory at Harvard He is an investigator in physical and inorganic in-organic chemistry and the author of papers concerning the significance of changing atomic volume. With assistants, as-sistants, he has revised tho atomic woights of oxygen, copper, iron, nickel, calcium, sodium and many other elements. oo |