Owen Willans Richardson
1879 - 1959
- Born
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26 April 1879
Blenheim Terrace, Dewsbury, Yorkshire, England
- Died
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15/02/1959
Chandos Lodge, Alton, Hampshire, England
- Nationality
- British
- Gender
- Male
- Date of election for Royal Society fellowship
- 01/05/1913
- Age at the time of election for Royal Society fellowship
- 32
- Occupation
- Physicist
- Relationships
- Parents: Joshua Henry Richardson, woollen manufacturer, andCharlotte Maria Willans. Spouse: 1) Lilian Maud (1875/6–1945), daughter of Albert William Wilson, goods manager to the North Eastern Railway Company at Darlington, and sister of his friend H. A. Wilson 2) Henrietta Maria Rupp (b. 1896/7), physicist and early observer of electron diffraction.
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- Wikipedia
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Author of
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Referee's report by Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, on a paper 'The electrical conductivity imparted to a vacuum by hot conductors' by Owen Willans Richardson
Creator: Charles Thomson Rees Wilson Reference number: RR/16/97 -
Referee's report by Joseph Larmor, on a paper 'The electrical conductivity imparted to a vacuum by hot conductors' by Owen Willans Richardson
Creator: Joseph Larmor Reference number: RR/16/98 -
Referee's report by John Sealy Edward Townsend, on a paper 'The ionisation produced by hot platinum in different gases' by Owen Willans Richardson
Creator: John Sealy Edward Townsend Reference number: RR/17/80 -
Referee's report by Harold Albert Wilson, on a paper 'The ionisation produced by hot platinum in different gases' by Owen Willans Richardson
Creator: Harold Albert Wilson Reference number: RR/17/81 -
Referee's report by John Sealy Edward Townsend, on a paper 'The origin of thermal ionisation from carbon' by Owen Willans Richardson
Creator: John Sealy Edward Townsend Reference number: RR/20/110 -
Referee's report by John Sealy Edward Townsend, on a paper 'The influence of gases on the emission of electrons and ions from hot metals' by Owen Willans Richardson
Creator: John Sealy Edward Townsend Reference number: RR/22/93
Referee of
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Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'On the conductivity of salt vapours' by S J Kalandyk
Creator: Owen Willans Richardson Reference number: RR/21/98 -
Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'Experiments on tribo-electricity. I.—The tribo-electric series' by P E Shaw
Creator: Owen Willans Richardson Reference number: RR/24/75 -
Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'An inverstigation of the ionising power of the positive ions from a glowing tantalum filament in helium' by Frank Horton and Ann Catherine Davies
Creator: Owen Willans Richardson Reference number: RR/25/22 -
Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'On the Richardson gyro-magnetic effect' by Arthur Price Chattock and Leslie Fleetwood Bates
Creator: Owen Willans Richardson Reference number: RR/27/26 -
Referee's report by Owen William Richardson, on a paper 'Constitution of the X-ray spectra belonging to the L series of the elements' by H Hirata
Creator: Owen Willans Richardson Reference number: RR/27/83 -
Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'A spectroscopic investigation of the ionisation of argon by electron collisions' by Frank Horton and Ann Catherine Davies
Creator: Owen Willans Richardson Reference number: RR/27/90