Owen Willans Richardson
Born: April 26, 1879
Died: February 15, 1959 (aged 79)
Bio: Sir Owen Willans Richardson, FRS 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.
Known for:
- The electron theory of matter (1914)
- The Emission of Electricity from Hot Bodies (1916)
- Thermionic Emission from Hot Bodies
- Molecular Hydrogen and Its Spectrum (1934)
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