Professor Baxter Awarded Richards Chemistry Prize

Gregory Paul Baxter, Theodore William Richards Professor of Chemistry, has been presented the Theodore William Richards Medal, awarded biennially by the Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society for "outstanding eminence in the field of pure chemistry." The award is particularly appropriate, because Professor Baxter's work has been in the field in which the late Professor Richards distinguished himself and won the Nobel Prize.

Chairman of the International Committee on Atomic Weights. Professor Baxter has achieved wide fame for his revision of atomic weights, measurements on densities of gases and liquids.