Talk:Theodore William Richards

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[edit] Changes and suggestions

I've recently made a lot of additions to the Theodore Richards article. Here are some needs that I don't think I'll have either the time or resources to address.

1. More on Richards' family life
2. His motivation for particular lines of research
3. The Nernst-Richards arguments about the heat theorem
4. More on Richards' long interest in compressibilities
5. More details of his measurements atomic masses
6. Evaluation of his work by contemporaries as well as present-day scientists
7. Honorary degrees
8. Service in World War I

Help is welcome! -- Astrochemist (talk) 13:26, 29 December 2007 (UTC)