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Owen Willans Richardson
Full Name of the recipient | Owen Willans Richardson |
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Award | Nobel Prize in Physics |
Year of Award | 1928 |
Share in Award | 100.0% |
Award Shared with | |
Motivation for the Award | for his work on the thermionic phenomenon and especially for the discovery of the law named after him |
Affiliation at the Time of Award | London University, London, United Kingdom |
Place of Birth | Dewsbury, United Kingdom GBR |
Date of Birth | 26 April 1879 |
Age at the time of Award | 48 years |
Place of Death | Alton, United Kingdom GBR |
Date of Death | 15 February 1959 |