Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers: 100 Years Ago: "Harvard Professor Wins Nobel Prize," New-York Tribune, Nov. 13, 1915

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1914 goes to (drumroll, please!): Theodore William Richards! Professor Richards received the coveted award for 1914 one year later, in 1915, for fixing the atom weights of chemical elements. In evaluating contenders for the annual prize in 1914, the Nobel Committee for Chemistry determined that none of the year’s nominations met the criteria set forth by Alfred Nobel and thus referred to a Nobel Foundation statute implying that a case could be reserved until the following year. He was the first American to be awarded such a prize and he’s in good company, too.  A week prior, Thomas A. Edison was awarded the 1915 prize for physics.  You never know what scientific history you’ll find in our historic newspapers....Read more about it and follow us on Twitter @librarycongress #ChronAm #10Million!

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