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The 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
Owen Willans Richardson
United Kingdom
London University
London, United Kingdom
b. 1879
d. 1959
 
 
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