Richard Kleeman

Richard Kleeman
Born20 January 1875 (1875-01-20)
Rowland Flat, South Australia
Died10 October 1932(1932-10-10) (aged 57)
New York City
Resting placeMount Hope Cemetery, New York
Alma materUniversity of Adelaide
University of Cambridge
Scientific career
FieldsNuclear physics
InstitutionsCavendish Laboratory
Union College
Doctoral advisorWilliam Henry Bragg

Richard Daniel Kleeman (20 January 1875 – 10 October 1932) was an Australian physicist. With William Henry Bragg he discovered that the alpha particles emitted from particular radioactive substances always had the same energy, providing a new way of identifying and classifying them.

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