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Owen Willans Richardson, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1879)

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Owen Richardson

English physicist (1879–1959)

Sir Owen Willans Richardson was an English physicist who received the 1928 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on thermionic emission, which led to Richardson's law.
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Nobel Prize in Physics

One of five prizes established in 1895 by Alfred Nobel

The Nobel Prize in Physics is an annual award given by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for those who have made the most outstanding contributions to mankind in the field of physics. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and…
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