biography
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Richardson, Sir Owen Willans
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| lived:
| (1879–1959)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, N England, UK. He studied at Cambridge, and at the Cavendish Laboratory he began his work on thermionics, a term he coined to describe the phenomenon of the emission of electricity from hot bodies; for this work he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1928. He was appointed professor of physics at King's College, London (1914), and was Yarrow research professor of the Royal Society (1924–44). |
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