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Owen Willans Richardson

1879 - 1959

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Sir Owen Willans Richardson (26 April 1879 – 15 February 1959) was an English physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1928 for his work on thermionic emission, which led to Richardson's law. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Owen Willans Richardson is the 30th most popular physicist (up from 99th in 2019), the 80th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 262nd in 2019) and the 11th most popular British Physicist.

Owen Willans Richardson was a British physicist who was most famous for his work on thermionic emission.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Owen Willans Richardson ranks 30 out of 851. Before him are Enrico Fermi, John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, Georg Ohm, Robert Hooke, Maria Goeppert Mayer, and Charles Thomson Rees Wilson. After him are Ibn al-Haytham, Heinrich Hertz, Lawrence Bragg, Christiaan Huygens, James Clerk Maxwell, and Louis de Broglie.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Owen Willans Richardson ranks 4. Before him are Albert Einstein, Joseph Stalin, and Leon Trotsky. After him are Paul Klee, Kazimir Malevich, Emperor Taishō, Otto Hahn, Franz von Papen, Max von Laue, Margaret Sanger, and Emiliano Zapata. Among people deceased in 1959, Owen Willans Richardson ranks 3. Before him are George Marshall, and Charles Thomson Rees Wilson. After him are Stepan Bandera, Adolf Windaus, Frank Lloyd Wright, Cecil B. DeMille, Ante Pavelić, Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, Gérard Philipe, Bohuslav Martinů, and Billie Holiday.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Owen Willans Richardson ranks 80 out of 8,785. Before him are John Maynard Keynes (1883), Daniel Defoe (1660), Cecil Rhodes (1853), Bertrand Russell (1872), Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869), and Harold Harefoot (1016). After him are William Ewart Gladstone (1809), Empress Matilda (1102), Alfred Hitchcock (1899), Anne, Princess Royal (1950), Tom Jones (1940), and James Clerk Maxwell (1831).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Owen Willans Richardson ranks 11. Before him are James Prescott Joule (1818), Edward Victor Appleton (1892), William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824), John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (1842), Robert Hooke (1635), and Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869). After him are James Clerk Maxwell (1831), William Gilbert (1544), Nevill Francis Mott (1905), David J. Thouless (1934), Brian Josephson (1940), and Patrick Blackett (1897).

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