Edward Wichers (March 25, 1892 – January 1984) was a US chemist and Associate Director of the

National Bureau of Standards The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is an agency of the United States Department of Commerce whose mission is to promote American innovation and industrial competitiveness. NIST's activities are organized into physical sci ...

from 1958-62. He is notable for his work on atomic weights of the elements. Edward Wichers graduated from

Hope College Hope College is a private Christian liberal arts college in Holland, Michigan. It was originally opened in 1851 as the Pioneer School by Dutch immigrants four years after the community was first settled. The first freshman college class matricul ...

in 1913 and from 1948 to 1958 Wichers headed the Chemistry Division at the National Bureau of Standards. In 1941 he was awarded the Honorary Doctor of Science degree at Hope College commencement. Wichers was assigned to the

Manhattan Project The Manhattan Project was a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons. It was led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada. From 1942 to 1946, the project w ...

at Los Alamos to work on the first atomic bomb, 1944-1945. He headed the International Atomic Weights Commission from 1950–59 and from 1964–69, and was the President of the

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's Inorganic Chemistry Division from 1955-1957.

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