Sir Willans Owen Richardson
1879-1959
British physicist awarded the 1928 Nobel Prize in physics for work on thermionic emission of electrons from hot surfaces. In 1901 he discovered what is now known ...
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Owen W. Richardson is best known for his work in thermionics, the emission of electrons from a heated surface, and specifically for the law that describes that phenomenon, now called Richardson's law....
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Owen Willans Richardson was born in Dewsbury, Yorkshire, England, in 1879. He was the eldest of three children born to Joshua Henry and Charlotte Maria Willans Richardson. Richardson earned first-clas...
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Sir Willans Owen Richardson
Owen W. Richardson
Owen W. Richardson