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more general categories information about this item 10. Noble Prize 10. Noble Prize Physics (209) 11. Award Year 11. Award Year 1920s (54) 1928 (4) 12. Winner Type 12. Winner Type Person (904) 13. Gender 13. Gender Male (853) 14. Birth Year 14. Birth Year 1870s (42) 1879 (6) 15. Place of Birth 15. Place of Birth Europe (459) Europe, western (207) United Kingdom (101) Dewsbury (1) 16. Death Year 16. Death Year 1950s (45) 1959 (5) 17. Place of Death 17. Place of Death Europe (331) Europe, western (182) United Kingdom (86) Alton (1) 19. Given Name 19. Given Name L-R (240) O (17) 20. Family Name 20. Family Name L-R (258) R (44) 21. Shared Given Name 21. Shared Given Name L-R (156) O (12) Owen (2) 22. Shared Family Name 22. Shared Family Name L-R (24) R (4) Richardson (2) 23. Religion 23. Religion z-Missing value reason (465) Source data not available (465) 24. Age at Award Time 24. Age at Award Time 50 - 59 (231) 32. Occupations 32. Occupations Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations (601) Physical Scientists (333) Astronomers and Physicists (222) Physicists (206) 34. Citizens 34. Citizens Europe (450) Europe, western (223) United Kingdom (110) 37. Worked for College or University 37. Worked for College or University Europe (232) Europe, western (125) United Kingdom (64) London (19) London University (7) 42. Affilliation with College or University 42. Affilliation with College or University Europe (535) Europe, western (390) United Kingdom (235) Cambridge (118) University of Cambridge (118) Alumni (69) Long-term academic staff (44) London (82) King's College (12) Long-term academic staff (5) University College London (33) Alumni (8) North America (529) United States (521) Middle Atlantic states (178) New Jersey (70) Princeton (65) Princeton University (65) Long-term academic staff (25) 44. Memberships 44. Memberships A-D (656) A (635) American Philosophical Society (126) R-T (460) R (448) Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences (54) Royal Society (294) Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (111) 45. Other Awards 45. Other Awards E-F (439) F (394) Fellow of the Royal Society (101) G-H (389) H (196) Hughes Medal (29) Q-Z (398) R (196) Royal Medal (50) complete name: Owen Willans Richardson nobel prize: physics award year: 1928 prize share: Prize share: 1/1 rational: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1928 was awarded to Owen Willans Richardson "for his work on the thermionic phenomenon and especially for the discovery of the law named after him." biography: Biography laureate facts: Facts laureate lecture: Lecture given name: Owen family name: Richardson occupation: physicist occupation: university teacher occupation: theoretical physicist field of work: physics work location: Princeton University, 1 Nassau Hall, Princeton, NJ, 08544-0070, United States of America description: Owen Willans Richardson was a British physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1928 for his work on thermionic emission, which led to Richardson's law. image copyright: Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. image citation: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1928. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1928/summary/> date birth: 1879 date death: 1959 usual name: Owen Richardson
