Owen W. Richardson is best known for his work in thermionics, the emission of electrons from a heated surface, and specifically for the law that describes that phenomenon, now called Richardson's law. For his work on thermionics, Richardson was awarded...

Owen Willans Richardson was born in Dewsbury, Yorkshire, England, in 1879. He was the eldest of three children born to Joshua Henry and Charlotte Maria Willans Richardson. Richardson earned first-class honors in 1900 at Trinity College, Cambridge, in...

1879-1959 British physicist awarded the 1928 Nobel Prize in physics for work on thermionic emission of electrons from hot surfaces. In 1901 he discovered what is now known as Richardson's law, which states that in thermionic emission electron...

Sir Owen Willans Richardson (April 26, 1879 - February 15, 1959) was a British physicist, a professor at Princeton University from 1906 to 1913, and a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1928 "for his work on the thermionic phenomenon and...

Byline: Michael Rand; Staff Writer In Jason Willan's seven seasons with the Milwaukee Rampage, his soccer squad was 0-4 in playoff series against the Thunder. It was just the veteran midfielder's luck that he sat out last season - when the Rampage...

Thomas Stuart Willan, historian: born 3 January 1910; Assistant Lecturer, School of Economics and Commerce, Dundee 1934-35; Assistant Lecturer in History, Manchester University 1935-45, Lecturer 1945-47, Senior Lecturer 1947-49, Reader 1949- 61, Professor of Economic History 1961-73 (Emeritus); FBA 1991; author of River Navigation...