# Owen Willans Richardson

> He explained why hot metal emits electrons - the invisible exodus that makes every vacuum tube, every early computer, every cathode ray screen work. The 1928 Nobel recognized a law that turned heat into predictable current.

*British physicist (1879-1959)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Scientist ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Scientists
- **Country:** United Kingdom
- **Born:** 1879-04-26
- **Died:** 1959-02-15
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Owen Willans Richardson was born on 26 April 1879 in Britain, into a world where electrons themselves had barely been named. His work centered on thermionic emission: the phenomenon where heated materials release electrons into surrounding space. He derived what became Richardson's law, a mathematical relationship governing the flow, turning a laboratory curiosity into an engineering principle. The Nobel came in 1928, acknowledgment that he'd mapped the physics underneath an entire generation of technology. He died on 15 February 1959, eighty years old, his equation still in the textbooks.

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## Topics
#Scientists, #Scientist, #Physics, #United Kingdom, #Europe, #20th Century

## Timeline
- **1959** - Died
- **1931** - Silliman Memorial Lectures
- **1930** - Royal Medal
- **1928** - Nobel Prize in Physics
- **1920** - Hughes Medal
- **1879** - Born

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