Owen Willans Richardson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Owen Willans Richardson

British physicist

Date of Birth: 26-Apr-1879

Place of Birth: Dewsbury, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 15-Feb-1959

Profession: physicist, university teacher, theoretical physicist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Sir Owen Willans Richardson, FRS (26 April 1879 – 15 February 1959) was a British physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1928 for his work on thermionic emission, which led to Richardson's law.