Quote of the day
What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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)