Owen Willans Richardson was a British physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1928 for his work on the thermionic phenomenon, and especially for discovering the law named after him, Richardson's law, which describes how electric current is emitted from heated materials.
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P20 (place of death): Alton, United Kingdom
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Member Of: King's College London, Infobox, workplaces
Infobox workplaces: Princeton University King's College London
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