Owen Richardson

Sir Owen Richardson FRS
Richardson in 1928
Born	Owen Willans Richardson (1879-04-26)26 April 1879 Dewsbury, Yorkshire, England
Died	15 February 1959(1959-02-15) (aged 79) Alton, Hampshire, England
Resting place	Brookwood Cemetery, Surrey
Education	Batley Grammar School
Alma mater	Trinity College, Cambridge University College London (DSc, 1904)
Known for	Richardson's law (1901)
Spouses	Lilian Wilson ​ ​ (m. 1906; died 1945)​ Henriette Rupp ​ (m. 1948)​
Children	3
Relatives	Harold Wilson (brother-in-law) Oswald Veblen (brother-in-law)
Awards	FRS (1913)[1] Hughes Medal (1920) Nobel Prize in Physics (1928) Royal Medal (1930)
Honours	Knight Bachelor (1939)
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	Cavendish Laboratory (1900–1906) Princeton University (1906–1913) King's College London (1914–1944)
Academic advisors	J. J. Thomson[2]
Doctoral students	Clinton Davisson (1911) Karl Taylor Compton (1912)[2] Ali Moustafa Mosharafa (1923)[2]
Signature

Sir Owen Willans Richardson (26 April 1879 – 15 February 1959) was an English physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1928 for his work on thermionic emission, which led to Richardson's law.^{[3][4][5][6][7][8]}