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The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
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)