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Owen Willans Richardson

Died on February 15, 1959

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Sir Owen Willans Richardson (26 April 1879 – 15 February 1959) 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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