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prize, that of 1914 awarded in 1915, he was deterred by war con- 

 ditions from visiting Sweden at that time, and when later, in 1922, he 

 went to Europe with the intention of delivering the Nobel address, 

 the critical illness of his older son, who accompanied him, again inter- 

 fered with his visit to Scandinavia. At this time he was given the 

 LeBlanc and Lavoisier medals of the French Chemical Society, In 

 1925 he was made an officer of the French Legion of Honor. 



Besides holding membership in various American scientific so- 

 cieties, he was a vice president of the Eighth International Congress 

 of Applied Chemistry in 1912, president of the American Chemical 

 Society in 1914, of the American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science in 1917, of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 

 1919-1921, and was to serve as the honorary chairman of the Sep- 

 tember, 1928, meeting of the American Chemical Society. Honorary 

 memberships in the Royal Institution of Great Britain, the Chemists' 

 Club of New York, the Harvey Society, the Franklin Institute, the 

 Royal Irish Society, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and the French 

 Chemical Society were received in that order. He was foreign mem- 

 ber of the Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Royal Italian Academy 

 (dei Lincei), the Royal Society of London and the Danish Royal 

 Academy, and corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of 

 Sciences, the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, the Royal 

 Academy of Sciences of Bologna, and the French Academy of 

 Sciences. In 1908 he was appointed lecturer in the Lowell Institute 

 in Boston and gave a series of lectures on The Atomic Theory. He 

 was a member of the National Research Council from the time of its 

 organization throughout the war, and during the war was consulting 

 chemist under the War Department. Since 1902 he had been a re- 

 search associate of the Carnegie Institution. 



It is seldom that an endowed professorship is named for a person 

 then living, but in 1925 Richards's friends were delighted by the 

 announcement that Mr. Thomas W. Lamont, in memory of his 

 brother, Hammond W. Lamont, had established at Harvard the 

 Theodore William Richards professorship of chemistry. 



Genial and social in his inclinations and with a whimsical sense 

 of humor, he was a welcome addition to any gathering, for his inter- 

 ests included practically every form of human activity, especially art 

 and music. His artistic inheritance might well have been developed 

 as his vocation. As a youngster he planned to follow in his father's 

 footsteps and always obtained enjoyment from exercising his ability 

 to sketch and paint. One of the most interesting sights in the Gibbs 

 Laboratory was a marine picture which was the joint production of 

 father and son. He was particularly warm-hearted and generous 

 toward his friends. No trouble was too great for him to take in their 



