Owen Willans Richardson

Sir
Owen Richardson
FRS
Richardson in 1928
Born
Owen Willans Richardson

(1879-04-26)26 April 1879
Dewsbury, Yorkshire, UK
Died15 February 1959(1959-02-15) (aged 79)
Alton, Hampshire, England
NationalityBritish
EducationBatley Grammar School
Alma mater
Known forRichardson's law
Einstein–de Haas effect
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
Institutions
Doctoral advisorJ. J. Thomson[2]
Doctoral students
Signature

Sir Owen Willans Richardson, FRS[1] (26 April 1879 – 15 February 1959) 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.[3][4][5][6][7][8]

  1. ^ a b Wilson, Wm (1960). "Owen Willans Richardson 1879–1959". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 5. Royal Society: 206–215. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1960.0016. S2CID 71230816.
  2. ^ Rayleigh (1941). "Joseph John Thomson. 1856-1940". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 3 (10): 586–609. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1941.0024.
  3. ^ "Owen Willans Richardson: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1928". Nobel Lectures, Physics 1922-1941, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam. Nobel Foundation. 1965. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
  4. ^ Richardson, OW (1921), "Problems of Physics", Science, 54 (1396) (published 30 September 1921): 283–91, Bibcode:1921Sci....54..283R, doi:10.1126/science.54.1396.283, PMID 17818864, S2CID 4073897
  5. ^ Richardson, OW (1913), "The Emission of Electrons From Tungsten at High Temperatures: An Experimental Proof That The Electric Current In Metals Is Carried By Electrons", Science, 38 (967) (published 11 July 1913): 57–61, Bibcode:1913Sci....38...57R, doi:10.1126/science.38.967.57, PMID 17830216
  6. ^ Richardson, OW (1912), "The Laws of Photoelectric Action and the Unitary Theory of Light (Lichtquanten Theorie)", Science, 36 (915) (published 12 July 1912): 57–8, Bibcode:1912Sci....36...57R, doi:10.1126/science.36.915.57-a, PMID 17800821, S2CID 39108526
  7. ^ Richardson, OW; Compton, KT (1912), "The Photoelectric Effect", Science, 35 (907) (published 17 May 1912): 783–4, Bibcode:1912Sci....35..783R, doi:10.1126/science.35.907.783, PMID 17792421
  8. ^ Owen Richardson's Nobel lecture on thermionics, 12 December 1929