Quote of the day
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
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)