Owen Willans Richardson

Nobel Prize in Physics 1928

“for his work on the thermionic phenomenon and especially for the discovery of the law named after him”

Owen Willans Richardson was a British physicist known for his work on thermionic emission. He discovered the law governing the emission of electrons from heated metals, now known as Richardson's law. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1928 for his work on the thermionic phenomenon.