• DocumentCode
    1477637
  • Title

    Sir Owen Richardson, F.R.S.: Nobel prizewinner in physics 1928

  • Author

    Gambling, W.A.

  • Volume
    44
  • Issue
    8
  • fYear
    1974
  • fDate
    8/1/1974 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    400
  • Lastpage
    406
  • Abstract
    O.W. Richardson was a prolific scientist who published the first of his 133 papers, on the mechanism of thermionic emission, when he was only 22 and the last at the age of 74. This essay traces his development of the science of thermionics.
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Radio and Electronic Engineer
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0033-7722
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/ree.1974.0106
  • Filename
    5268299