Owen Richardson retired from academia in what year?
1924
1939
1945
1951
Answer
Owen Richardson retired from active academic life in 1939, although he continued his research at the Wheatstone Physics Laboratory in London until 1953. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1928 for his work on Thermionic emission of electrons, which laid the foundation for the field of thermionics and had practical applications in devices such as vacuum tubes.
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