Owen Willans Richardson

Nobel Prize lecture

Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1929

Thermionic Phenomena and the Laws which Govern Them

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From Nobel Lectures, Physics 1922-1941, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1965

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