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Sir Owen Richardson
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Born in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
Born on 26th of April 1879
Died on 15th of February 1959

Born 1879. Died 1959 - English physicist and Nobel Prize winner.

Educated at Cambridge. At Cavendish Laboratory began his famous work on thermionics, the phenomenon of the emission of electricity from hot bodies. Awarded Nobel Prize for physics in 1928.

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http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1928/ Nobel site

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