Owen Willans Richardson
British physicist (1879 – 1959) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sir Owen Willans Richardson, FRS[1] (26 April 1879 – 15 February 1959) was a British physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1928 for his work on thermionic emission, which led to Richardson's law.[3][4][5][6][7][8]
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Born | Owen Willans Richardson (1879-04-26)26 April 1879 Dewsbury, Yorkshire, UK |
Died | 15 February 1959(1959-02-15) (aged 79) Alton, Hampshire, England |
Nationality | British |
Education | Batley Grammar School |
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Known for | Richardson's law Einstein–de Haas effect |
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Fields | Physics |
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Doctoral advisor | J. J. Thomson[2] |
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