Internet consulté le 12-02-2005, http://www.britannica.com/nobel/micro/503_37.html
Information trouvée : Richardson, Sir Owen Willans (b. April 26, 1879, Dewsbury, Yorkshire, Eng.--d. Feb.
15, 1959, Alton, Hampshire), English physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics
in 1928 for his work on electron emission by hot metals, the basic principle used
in vacuum tubes.