Owen Willans Richardson's Birth Card: The 8 of Clubs

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Sir Owen Willans Richardson (26 April 1879 – 15 February 1959) was a British physicist who received the 1928 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on thermionic emission and for the discovery of Richardson's law. The birth-card coordinate for April 26 is the 8 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1928 Physics prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1928 The Nobel Prize in Physics — for his work on the thermionic phenomenon and especially for the discovery of the law named after him

The 8 of Clubs coordinate

Owen Willans Richardson's birthday maps to the 8 of Clubs (The Ambitious Builder). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Nobel Prize and not a verdict on Owen Willans Richardson. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You run a knowledge system other people can follow, and you stand behind the call.

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Owen Willans Richardson in the public record

Owen Willans Richardson was born on 26 April 1879 in Dewsbury, England, the only son of Joshua Henry Richardson and Charlotte Maria Willans. Richardson was educated at Batley Grammar School, before entering Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1897, where he gained First Class Honours in Natural Science in 1900 and was elected a Fellow in 1902. He obtained a D.Sc. from University College London in 1904. In 1906, Richardson was appointed Professor of Physics at Princeton University in the United States, a position he held until 1913. The following year, he returned to England to become Wheatstone Professor of Physics at King's College London, where he was later made Director of Research in 1924. He retired from King's College in 1944. Richardson died on 15 February 1959 in Alton, Hampshire, at the age of 79. He is buried in Brookwood Cemetery (Plot 8) in Surrey.

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Sir Owen Willans Richardson (26 April 1879 – 15 February 1959) was a British physicist who received the 1928 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on thermionic emission and for the discovery of Richardson's law.

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Also on the record

1. In 1900, Richardson began researching the emission of electricity from hot bodies in the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge.
2. The following year, he demonstrated that the current from a heated wire seemed to depend exponentially on the temperature of the wire with a mathematical form similar to the Arrhenius equation.
3. This became known as Richardson's law: "If then the negative radiation is due to the electrons coming out of the metal, the saturation current s should obey the law s = A T 1 / 2 e − b / T {\displaystyle s=A\,T^{1/2}\,e^{-b/T}} ." Richardson also researched the photoelectric effect, the gyromagnetic effect, the emission of electrons by chemical reactions, soft X-rays, and the spectrum of hydrogen.
4. In 1906, Richardson married Lilian Maud Wilson, the sister of his Cavendish colleague, Harold Albert Wilson.

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• 15 more laureates share this card.

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