Owen Willans Richardson (1879 - 1959)

Born 26 Apr 1879 in Dewsbury, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom

Ancestors

Husband of Lilian Maud Wilson — married 12 Jun 1906 in Darlington, Durham, England, United Kingdom

Died 15 Feb 1959 at age 79 in Alton, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom

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Biography

Owen Richardson is Notable.

Owen Richardson was awarded the Nobel Prize.

Owen Richardson was a British physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1928 for his work on thermionic emission, which led to Richardson's law.

After graduating in 1900, he began researching the emission of electricity from hot bodies at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, and in October 1902 he was made a fellow at Trinity.[10] In 1901, he demonstrated that the current from a heated wire seemed to depend exponentially on the temperature of the wire with a mathematical form similar to the Arrhenius equation.

He also researched the photoelectric effect, the gyromagnetic effect, the emission of electrons by chemical reactions, soft X-rays, and the spectrum of hydrogen.

Richardson married Lilian Wilson, sister of his Cavendish colleague Harold Wilson, in 1906, and had two sons and a daughter. Richardson's own sister married the American physicist (and 1937 Nobel laureate) Clinton Davisson, who was Richardson's PhD student at Princeton. After Lilian's death in 1945, he was remarried in 1948 to Henriette Rupp, a physicist.

The son of Joshua Henry and Charlotte Maria (Willans) Richardson, Owen was christened on 22 May 1879 in Batley Carr, Dewsbury, York, England.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N13D-B6R : 10 February 2018, Obern Willans Richardson, 26 Apr 1879); citing yr 1841-1909 p 184, index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 1,542,276.

• "England and Wales Census, 1881," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q27T-YRFJ : 11 December 2017), Owen Willans Richardson in household of Joshua Henry Richardson, Dewsbury, Yorkshire,Yorkshire West Riding, England; from "1881 England, Scotland and Wales Census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing p. 23, Piece/Folio 4562/45, The National Archives, Kew, Surrey; FHL microfilm 101,775,280.
• "England and Wales Census, 1891," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:72CM-YN2 : 11 December 2017), Owen W Richardson in household of Joshua Henry Richardson, Dewsbury, Yorkshire, Yorkshire (West Riding), England; from "1891 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing PRO RG 12, Yorkshire, Yorkshire (West Riding) county, subdistrict, The National Archives of the UK, Kew, Surrey.
• "New York Passenger Arrival Lists (Ellis Island), 1892-1924", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JFM7-9YD : 30 January 2018), Owen W. Richardson, 1909.
• "New York, New York Passenger and Crew Lists, 1909, 1925-1957," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:24JF-463 : 12 March 2018), Owen W Richardson, 1932; citing Immigration, New York, New York, United States, NARA microfilm publication T715 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

See also:

• Wikipedia: [[wikipedia:Owen_Willans_Richardson|Owen Willans Richardson]
• Wikidata: Item Q169330, en:Wikipedia