In what year did Richardson receive the Nobel Prize in Physics?
1928
1935
1918
1952
Answer
The 1928 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Owen Willans Richardson "for his work on Thermionic effect and especially for the discovery of the law named after him." This law, known as Richardson's law, describes the relationship between the emission of electrons from a heated metal surface and the temperature of the surface. It has important applications in fields such as thermionics and vacuum tubes.
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