Sir Owen Richardson, F.R.S.: Nobel prizewinner in physics 1928

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Published 24/07/2012

Abstract

O.W. Richardson was a prolific scientist who published the first of his 133 papers, on the mechanism of thermionic emission, when he was only 22 and the last at the age of 74. This essay traces his development of the science of thermionics.

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      • Wilson, W.: `Owen Willans Richardson', Biographical Memoirs, Royal Society, 1959, 5
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