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Owen Willans Richardson

Owen Willans Richardson
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Sir Owen Willans Richardson was a British physicist who received the 1928 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on thermionic emission and for the discovery of Richardson's law.

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Who was born first?

Timeline

  1. Francis Peyton RousOctober 5, 1879 – February 16, 1970
  2. Guido FubiniJanuary 19, 1879 – June 6, 1943
  3. Johannes Nicolaus BrønstedFebruary 22, 1879 – December 17, 1947
  4. Leonid MandelstamMay 4, 1879 – November 27, 1944
  5. Owen Willans Richardson (this page)April 26, 1879 – February 15, 1959
  6. Pierre CérésoleAugust 17, 1879 – October 23, 1945

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