Owen Willans Richardson - Nobel Prize in Physics — 1928
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Owen Willans Richardson

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 1928
for his work on the thermionic phenomenon and especially for the discovery of the law named after him
Citizenship
United Kingdom United Kingdom
Languages
English
date of birth
4/26/1879
place of birth
Dewsbury
date of death
2/15/1959
place of death
Alton
Lived
79 years

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position held
  • director
    • start time: 1924
    • end time: 1944
  • university teacher
    • end time: 1924
    • start time: 1914
employer
  • King's College London
    • end time: 1944
    • start time: 1914
  • Princeton University
    • start time: 1906
    • end time: 1914
doctoral student
  • Karl Taylor Compton
  • Karl Taylor Compton
  • Ali Moustafa Mosharafa
  • Ali Moustafa Mosharafa
educated at
  • Trinity College
  • University of London
  • Batley Grammar School
field of work
  • thermionic emission
  • physics
member of
  • Royal Society of London
  • Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
  • Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1910
occupation
  • physicist
  • university teacher
  • theoretical physicist
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