Owen Richardson

Sir
Owen Richardson
FRS
Sir Owen Richardson FRS
	Richardson in 1928
Born	Owen Willans Richardson; 26 April 1879; Dewsbury, England, UKGBI
Died	15 February 1959 (aged 79); Alton, England, UK
Resting place	Brookwood Cemetery
Education	Batley Grammar School
Alma mater	Trinity College, Cambridge (BSc); University College London (DSc);
Known for	Richardson's law
Spouses	; Lilian Maud Wilson (m. 1906; died 1945) ; Henriette Rupp (m. 1948)
Children	3
Relatives	Harold Albert Wilson, Oswald Veblen (brothers-in-law)
Awards	Hughes Medal (1920); Nobel Prize in Physics (1928); Royal Medal (1930);
	Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	Princeton University ; (1906–1913); King's College London ; (1914–1944);
Academic advisors	J. J. Thomson
Doctoral students	Clinton Davisson (1911); Karl Compton (1912); Alan Waterman (1917); Ali Mosharafa (1923);
Other notable students	Arthur Compton; Ukichiro Nakaya;
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Sir Owen Willans Richardson (26 April 1879 – 15 February 1959) was a British physicist who received the 1928 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on thermionic emission and for the discovery of Richardson's law.