| Owen Willans Richardson  Born: 26-Apr-1879
Birthplace: Dewsbury, Yorkshire, England
Died: 15-Feb-1959
Location of death: Alton, Hampshire, England
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist Nationality: England
Executive summary: Electron emissions of metals Father: Joshua Henry Richardson
Mother: Charlotte Maria Richardson
Wife: Lilian Maud Wilson (m. 1906, d. 1945, two sons, one daughter)
Wife: Henriette Rupp (physicist, m. 1948)
High School: Batley Grammar School
University: Trinity College, Cambridge University (1900)
Professor: Physics, Princeton University (1906-13)
Professor: King's College, University of London (1914-44)
Nobel Prize for Physics 1928
Hughes Medal 1920
Knighthood 1939
American Philosophical Society 1911
Royal Society 1913
Author of books:
The Electron Theory of Matter (1914, phsyics)
The Emission of Electricity from Hot Bodies (1916, physics)
Molecular Hydrogen and its Spectrum (1934, physics)
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