Updated at November 2, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Owen Willans Richardson |
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Birthdate | April 26, 1879 |
Birth Place | England |
Age (in 2024) | 145 Years Old |
Zodiac | Taurus |
Occupation | Physicist |
Owen Willans Richardson is best known as Physicist who has born on April 26, 1879 in England. Currently, Owen Willans Richardson is 145 years, 6 months and 6 days old. Owen Willans Richardson will celebrate 146th birthday on Saturday, 26th of April 2025. Below the countdown to Owen Willans Richardson upcoming birthday.
British physicist who won the 1928 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in thermionic emission, which is what led to Richardson's Law.
He earned a DSc from University College London in 1904 and was made a fellow at Trinity College.
He worked as a professor at Princeton University from 1906 until 1913.
He married Lilian Wilson in 1906, and they had two sons and a daughter.
He taught scientist Clinton Davisson at Princeton University, and he later became his brother in law.
Owen Willans Richardson is 145 years old today.
Owen Willans Richardson was born on April 26, 1879 in England.
Owen Willans Richardson zodiac sign is Taurus.
Owen Willans Richardson was best known as Physicist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Owen Willans Richardson's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1970 | The Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization enters into force. |
1981 | Dr. Michael R. Harrison of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center performs the world's first human open fetal surgery. |
1982 | Fifty-seven people are killed by former police officer Woo Bum-kon in a shooting spree in South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. |
1986 | The Chernobyl disaster occurs in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. |
1989 | The deadliest known tornado strikes Central Bangladesh, killing upwards of 1,300, injuring 12,000, and leaving as many as 80,000 homeless. |
1989 | People's Daily publishes the April 26 Editorial which inflames the nascent Tiananmen Square protests. |
1991 | Fifty-five tornadoes break out in the central United States. Before the outbreak's end, Andover, Kansas, would record the year's only F5 tornado. |
1993 | The Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on mission STS-55 to conduct experiments aboard the Spacelab module. |
1994 | China Airlines Flight 140 crashes at Nagoya Airport in Japan, killing 264 of the 271 people on board. |
1994 | South Africa begins its first multiracial election, which is won by Nelson Mandela's African National Congress. |
2002 | Robert Steinhäuser kills 16 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt, Germany before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot. |
2005 | Cedar Revolution: Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country (Syrian occupation of Lebanon). |
2015 | Nursultan Nazarbayev is re-elected President of Kazakhstan with 97.7% of the vote. |
2018 | American comedian Bill Cosby is convicted of sexual assault. |
2019 | Marvel Studios' blockbuster film, Avengers: Endgame, is released, becoming the highest-grossing film of all time, surpassing the previous box office record of Avatar. |
1989 | The birth of Kang Daesung, South Korean singer |
1990 | The birth of Mitch Rein, Australian rugby league player |
1990 | The birth of Nevin Spence, Northern Irish rugby player (d. 2012) |
1991 | The birth of Lazaros Fotias, Greek footballer |
1991 | The birth of Peter Handscomb, Australian cricketer |
1991 | The birth of Isaac Liu, New Zealand rugby league player |
1991 | The birth of Ignacio Lores Varela, Uruguayan footballer |
1991 | The birth of Srdjan Pejicic, Canadian/Bosnian basketball player |
1991 | The birth of Wojciech Pszczolarski, Polish bicycle racer |
1992 | The birth of Aaron Judge, American baseball player |
1992 | The birth of Delon Wright, American basketball player |
1994 | The birth of Daniil Kvyat, Russian racing driver |
1996 | The birth of Jordan Pefok, American footballer |
2001 | The birth of Thiago Almada, Argentine footballer |
2002 | The birth of Meagan Best, Barbadian squash player |
2009 | The death of Hans Holzer, Austrian-American paranormal investigator and author (b. 1920) |
2010 | The death of Mariam A. Aleem, Egyptian graphic designer and academic (b. 1930) |
2010 | The death of Urs Felber, Swiss engineer and businessman (b. 1942) |
2011 | The death of Phoebe Snow, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1950) |
2012 | The death of Terence Spinks, English boxer and trainer (b. 1938) |
2013 | The death of Jacqueline Brookes, American actress and educator (b. 1930) |
2013 | The death of George Jones, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1931) |
2014 | The death of Gerald Guralnik, American physicist and academic (b. 1936) |
2014 | The death of Paul Robeson, Jr., American historian and author (b. 1927) |
2014 | The death of DJ Rashad, American electronic musician, producer and DJ (b. 1979) |
2015 | The death of Jayne Meadows, American actress (b. 1919) |
2015 | The death of Marcel Pronovost, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1930) |
2016 | The death of Harry Wu, Chinese human rights activist (b. 1937) |
2017 | The death of Jonathan Demme, American filmmaker, producer and screenwriter (b. 1944) |
2022 | The death of Klaus Schulze, German composer and musician (b. 1947) |
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