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Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
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)