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Authorised form of nameRichardson; Sir; Owen Willans (1879 - 1959)
Dates1879 - 1959
NationalityBritish
Place of birthDewsbury, Yorkshire, England
Date of birth26 April 1879
Place of deathAlton, Hampshire
Date of death15/02/1959
Research fieldPhysics
Electronics
Thermionics
ActivityEducation:
Batley Grammar School (to 1900)
Medals and prizes:
Nobel Prize (Physics) 1928
Honours:
Kt 1939
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election01/05/1913
RSActivityMedals and prizes:
Hughes Medal 1920; Royal Medal 1930
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1959 vol 5 pp 207-215, plate, by Wm Wilson
References:
P B Moon, 'The (London) Physics Club, 1928-1953' in NR 1992 vol 46 pp 171-174
R Singh and F Riess, 'The nobel laureate Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman FRS and his contacts with the British Scientific community in a social and political context' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 47-64
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/144995859
CodeNA7014
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1913/13Richardson, Sir Owen Willans: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/GA/WS/1190Richardson, Sir Owen Willansnd
NLB/68New Letter Book volume 68, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration24 April 1925-10 December 1925
RR/17/81Referee's report by Harold Albert Wilson, on a paper 'The ionisation produced by hot platinum in different gases' by Owen Willans Richardson20 July 1906
RR/16/98Referee's report by Joseph Larmor, on a paper 'The electrical conductivity imparted to a vacuum by hot conductors' by Owen Willans Richardson29 March 1903
RR/17/80Referee's report by John Sealy Edward Townsend, on a paper 'The ionisation produced by hot platinum in different gases' by Owen Willans Richardson14 July 1906
RR/20/110Referee's report by John Sealy Edward Townsend, on a paper 'The origin of thermal ionisation from carbon' by Owen Willans RichardsonDecember 1913
NLB/27/7Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Owen Willans Richardson, [Fellow of the Royal Society], Trinity College, Cambridge14 June 1903
RR/27/90Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'A spectroscopic investigation of the ionisation of argon by electron collisions' by Frank Horton and Ann Catherine DaviesAugust 1922
NLB/33/270Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Owen Willans Richardson, [Fellow of the Royal Society], Trinity College, Cambridge26 July 1906
NLB/42/436Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Messrs Harrison & Sons13 June 1910
NLB/68/7Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Owen Willans] Richardson, FRS27 April 1925
RR/52/102Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The stark effect in the molecular spectrum of hydrogen' by Hawley SnellMay 1934
RR/29/59Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'Test of a theory of radiation' by George Paget ThomsonJune 1923
RR/29/58Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'On a null method of measuring the gyro-magnetic ratio' by Willie Sucksmith and Leslie Fleetwood BatesAugust 1923
NLB/54/643Copy letter from Dr. Arthur Schuster, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Owen Willans] Richardson, FRS12 July 1917
NLB/61/70Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Owen Willans] Richardson, FRS5 May 1921
RR/38/80Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The spectrum of silicon hydride' by C V V JacksonDecember 1929
RR/35/127Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'Doppler effects and intensities of lines in the molecular spectrum of hydrogen positive rays' by M C Johnson1927
RR/27/26Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'On the Richardson gyro-magnetic effect' by Arthur Price Chattock and Leslie Fleetwood BatesJuly 1922
RR/33/1Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'A further note upon “intertraction"' by Neil Kensington AdamOctober 1926
RR/44/83Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The gyromagnetic effect for paramagnetic substances. II.—Results on salts of the iron group' by Willie Sucksmith1931
RR/29/9Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'Investigations on the paramagnetism of crystals at low temperatures' by L C JacksonJuly 1923
NLB/63/489Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Professor [Owen Willans] Richardson, FRS27 October 1922
RR/32/29Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The absorption coefficient for slow electrons in the vapours of mercury, cadmium and zinc' by R B BrodeJuly 1925
RR/34/21Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'Investigations on paramagnetism at low temperatures. — Part II' by L C Jackson[June 1926]
RR/35/4Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'Critical potentials for soft X-ray excitation' by Ursula Andrewes, Ann Catherine Davies and Frank Horton[1927]
NLB/61/343Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Owen Willans] Richardson, FRS21 June 1921
NLB/66/253Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Owen Willians] Richardson, FRS27 March 1924
NLB/56/733Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Owen Willans] Richardson, FRS13 May 1919
RR/34/89Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'Amplitude of sound waves in pipes' by E G Richardson[April 1926]
RR/39/63Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'On the spectrum of doubly ionised Bromine' by S C Deb[1929]
RR/34/121Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'On the mutual potential energy of a plane network of doublets' by J Topping[December 1926]
RR/41/81Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The nature and size of the luminescent centre' by J EwlesSeptember 1930
RR/37/153Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The Saha theory and the conducting of flames containing alkali metal vapours' by Harold Albert WilsonFebruary 1928
RR/41/34Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The combination of nitrogen and hydrogen activated by electrons' by G F BrettJuly 1930
RR/35/31Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The combination of nitrogen and hydrogen activated by electrons' by A Caress and Eric Keightley RidealJune 1927
RR/43/23Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The arc spectrum of iodine' by S F EvansJune 1931
RR/34/25Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The structure and origin of the Swan band spectrum of carbon' by R C Johnson[October 1926]
RR/32/100Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson on a paper 'The effect of light on the settling of suspensions' by C G T Morison19 February 1925
RR/34/114Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'On the specific heat of ferromagnetic substances' by Willie Sucksmith and Harold H Potter[May 1926]
RR/55/14Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The formation of mercury molecules' by F L Arnot and J C MilliganJuly 1935
RR/38/115Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'A critical-absorption photometer for the study of the Compton effect' by Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman and C. M. Sogani1928
RR/38/19Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The thermionic emission constant A' by Ralph Howard Fowler1928
NLB/58/512Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Owen Willans] Richardson, FRS14 May 1920
RR/54/104Referee's report by William Edward Curtis, on a paper 'The spectrum of H2 Part III. New bands and band systems ending on 2s3S and an extension of the singlet system 1Q 2p1S' by Owen Willans Richardson and T B RymerSeptember 1934
RR/33/73Referee's report by Owens Willans Richardson, on a paper 'Stark patterns observed in helium' by John Stewart FosterNovember 1926
NLB/69/282Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Owen Willans] Richardson, FRS22 February 1926
RR/40/113Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'Ionisation by collision in monatomic gases' by John Sealy Edward Townsend and S P MacCallum1929
RR/61/16Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The formation of mercury molecules. II' by F L Arnot and Marjorie B McEwenJanuary 1938
NLB/58/711Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Owen Willans] Richardson, FRS9 June 1920
RR/39/30Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The amount of hydrogen and oxygen present on the surface of a metallic electrode' by Frank Philip Bowden[1929]
RR/39/69Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'Analysis by X-ray spectroscopy' by C E Eddy, Thomas Howell Laby and A H Turner[1929]
RR/39/35Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The absorption coefficient for slow electrons in mercury vapour' by Robert B Brodend [1929]
RR/40/100Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'Some remarks on the conduction of electricity in metals, and upon allied phenomena' by T E SternDecember 1929
RR/40/101Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'Further studies in the emission of electrons from cold metals' by T E Stern, B S Gosling and Ralph Howard Fowler1929
NLB/59/13Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Owen Willans] Richardson, FRS10 July 1920
RR/39/4Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'Electron scattering in mercury vapour' by F L Arnot[September 1929]
RR/40/118Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'Differences in the directions of ejection of x-ray photo-electrons from various atomic levels' by E C Watson and J A Van Den AkkerSeptember 1929
NLB/59/705Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Owen Willans] Richardson, FRS4 November 1920
NLB/59/354Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Owen Willans] Richardson, FRS22 September 1920
NLB/59/564Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Owen Willans] Richardson, FRS19 October 1920
RR/40/71Referee's report by William Henry Bragg, on a paper 'A comparative study of the excitation of soft X-Rays from single crystal surfaces and from Polycrystalline surfaces Graphite and Aluminium' by Owen Willans Richardson and Ursula AndrewesApril 1930
RR/40/70Referee's report by Alfred Fowler, on two papers 'The energy functions of the H2 molecules' by Owen Willans Richardson and P M Davidson May 1929
NLB/60/91Copy letter from David Prain, Treasurer and Vice President of the Royal Society; to Professor [Owen Willans] Richardson, FRS9 December 1920
NLB/59/530Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Owen Willans] Richardson, FRS13 October 1920
RR/63/41Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'Atomic hydrogen II—surface effects in the discharge tube' by H G PooleSeptember 1937
RR/54/20Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'Excitation and emission in the nitrogen band spectrum' by G O LangstrothMarch 1935
RR/43/106Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The hyperfine structure of Tl II' by John Cunningham McLennan and M F CrawfordApril 1931
RR/34/62Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The band spectra of helium and hydrogen at low temperatures' by John Cunningham McLennan, H Grayson Smith and C A Lea[October 1926]
RR/42/95Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The hyperfine structure of some lines in the arc and first spectrum of indium' by John Cunningham McLennanAugust 1930
RR/52/109Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The nuclear spins and magnetic moments of the isotopes of antimony' by Samuel TolanskyApril 1934
NLB/66/842Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Ll. S. Lloyd Esq., C. B. , Department of Scientific and Industrial Research; 16 Old Queen Street, S.W.1.24 July 1924
NLB/61/108Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Owen Willans] Richardson, FRS12 May 1921
RR/27/83Referee's report by Owen William Richardson, on a paper 'Constitution of the X-ray spectra belonging to the L series of the elements' by H HirataJanuary 1923
RR/48/114Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The motion of electrons in the static fields of hydrogen and helium' by J McDougall[February 1932]
RR/69/197Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'Influence of space charge on thermionic emission velocities' by O Klemperer1946
RR/45/58Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'Perturbations and rotation constants of some first negative nitrogen bands' by W H J Childs[May 1932]
RR/52/110Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The nuclear spin of iodine I— fine structure in the first spark spectrum' by Samuel TolanskyNovember 1934
RR/51/6Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'Molecular structure as determined by a new electron diffraction method. I—Experimental' by Henry de Laszlo[May 1934]
RR/48/56Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'Hyperfine structure in the arc spectrum of xenon' by E Gwynne Jones[December 1933]
RR/46/86Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'Bands due to the hydrogen molecule: The 2p 3? bands of hydrogen' by Ian Sandeman[July 1932]
RR/46/118Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'A note on the theory of rectification' by Alan Herries Wilson[January 1932]
NLB/62/880Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to J. C. Waller Esquire25 May 1922
RR/47/98Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The excitation potentials of light metals. II.—Beryllium' by Herbert Wakefield Banks SkinnerJanuary 1933
RR/48/44Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The mechanical moment of the nucleus of caesium' by Derek Ainslie Jackson[September 1933]
RR/49/16Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The emission of electrons from tungsten and molybdenum under the action of soft X-rays from copper' by James Bell[May 1933]
RR/49/84Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The spectra of the halogen molecules. Part I.-Iodine' by William Edward Curtis and S F Evans[April 1933]
RR/49/33Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'Continuous absorption of light in caesium vapour' by H J J Braddick and Robert William Ditchburnnd [October 1933]
RR/51/48Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'Measurement of shot voltage used to deduce the magnitude of secondary thermionic emission' by E B Moullin[June 1934]
RR/63/42Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'Atomic hydrogen III—The energy efficiency of atom production in a glow discharge' by H G PooleSeptember 1937
RR/58/42Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'Pressure broadening of spectral lines and van der Waals forces I—Influence of argon on the mercury resonance line' by H KuhnJuly 1936
RR/48/99Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'Spectrum of the afterglow of carbon dioxide' by Alfred Fowler and Alfred Gordon Gaydon[July 1933]
RR/61/23Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The molecular structure of boron trifluoride, BF3' by C R Bailey, J B Hale and J W ThompsonApril 1937
RR/63/78Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The distribution of potential in some thermionic tubes' by L Rosenhead and S D DaymondMay 1937
RR/63/40Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'Atomic hydrogen - I—The calorimetry of hydrogen atoms' by H G PooleSeptember 1937
RR/54/61Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The theory of the surface photoelectric effect in metals—II' by K MitchellSeptember 1935
RR/50/115Referee's report by Alfred Fowler, on a paper 'The spectrum of H2. The 3d1? and 4d1 levels' by Owen Willans Richardson and P M Davidson21 June 1933
RR/54/99Referee's report by William Edward Curtis, on a paper 'The spectrum of H2 (the ordinary hydrogen molecule) Part I—The 3, 4d3?, II, ? ? 2p3II and 3s3? ? 2p3II systems' by Owen Willans Richardson and T B Rymer13 July 1934
RR/50/114Referee's report by Alfred Fowler, on a paper 'The spectrum of H2. The bands ending on 2p3? levels. Part III' by Owen Willans Richardson and P M Davidson19 May 1933
RR/65/11Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'Electron transfer in mercury vapour' by F L Arnot and Marjorie B McEwen1938
RR/57/95Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The theory of the continuous absorption spectrum of bromine' by N S Bayliss[August 1936]
RR/69/335Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'Recombination and the long duration of the Balmer spectrum' by H Zanstra 1945
NLB/61/696Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Owen Willans] Richardson, FRS13 October 1921
RR/51/116Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The nuclear spin of tin' by Samuel Tolansky[December 1933]
NLB/64/284Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Owen Willans] Richardson, FRS7 March 1923
RR/61/110Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The interaction of atoms and molecules with solid surfaces XII—Critical phenomena in a two-dimensional gas' by A F Devonshire1937
RR/38/18Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The photo-electric threshold frequency and the thermionic work function' by Ralph Howard Fowler1928
RR/53/43Referee's report by John Edward Lennard-Jones, on a paper 'The emission of electrons under the influence of chemical action Part V—The theory of the chemical electron emission and its application to certain reactions involving haloids' by A K Denisoff and Owen Willans Richardson[December 1934]
RR/36/56Referee's report by Ralph Howard Fowler, on a paper 'The hydrogen band spectrum: new band systems in the violet' by Owen Willans Richardson[May 1927]
RR/59/10Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The L spectra of iron, cobalt, nickel, and copper' by [Francis Cecil] Chalklin[February 1936]
RR/56/88Referee's report by Ralph Howard Fowler, on a paper 'On the ground state of (H2), the molecular Ion (H2 +) and wave mechanics' by Owen Willans Richardson[October 1935]
RR/65/5Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The effect of solvents on continuous absorption spectrum of bromine' by R G Aickin, N S Bayliss and A L G ReesSeptember 1938
RR/58/55Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The interaction of atoms and molecules with solid surfaces VII—The diffraction of atoms by a surface' by John Edward Lennard-Jones and A F DevonshireOctober 1936
RR/63/72Referee's report by William Edward Curtis, on a paper 'The band systems ending on the 1so2so1Eg(1Xg) state of H2—Part I' by Owen Willans RichardsonMarch 1937
RR/55/111Referee's report by John Edward Lennard-Jones, on a paper 'The emission of electrons under the influence of chemical action' by A K
Denisoff and Owen Willans Richardson
March 1935
RR/58/29Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The modification of apparent thermionic constants for oxygenated tungsten by the temperature variation of adsorptive equilibrium' by M C Johnson and F A VickJuly 1936
RR/58/43Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'Pressure broadening of spectral lines and van der waals forces II—Continuous broadening and discrete bands in pure mercury vapour' by H KuhnJuly 1936
RR/56/12Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The Stark effect for mercury' by R N H Haslam[February 1935]
RR/69/199Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The Raman spectrum of rock-salt' by R S Krishnan1945
NLB/66/908Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Right Honourable [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS18 September 1924
RR/58/52Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The interaction of atoms and molecules with solid surfaces III—The condensation and evaporation of atoms and molecules' by John Edward Lennard-Jones and A F DevonshireApril 1936
RR/58/56Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The interaction of atoms and molecules with solid surfaces VI—The behaviour of adsorbed helium at low temperatures' by John Edward Lennard-Jones and A F DevonshireOctober 1936
RR/65/13Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The formation of helium molecules' by F L Arnot and Marjorie B McEwenApril 1938
RR/59/49Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The interaction of atoms and molecules with solid surfaces V - The diffraction and reflexion of molecular rays' by A F Devonshire[April 1936]
NLB/62/907Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Own Willans] Richardson, FRS2 June 1922
RR/64/119Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'Metallic reflexion and the surface photoelectric effect' by R E B Makinson[July 1937]
RR/63/46Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The continuous absorption spectra of alkyl iodides and alkyl bromides and their quantal interpretation' by D Porret and C F GoodeveDecember 1937
RR/65/264Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The nuclear spin of iodine III. Further measurements upon the fine structures in the first spark spectrum' by Samuel Tolansky and G O ForesterJuly 1938
RR/65/22Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The band spectrum of silicon monosulphide and its relation to the band spectra of similar molecules' by R F Barrow and W JevonsOctober 1938
RR/65/216Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The absorption spectra of carbon dioxide and carbon oxysulphide in the vacuum ultra-violet' by William Charles Price and Delia M Simpson1938
RR/64/131Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'Collective electron ferronmagnetism' by Edmund Clifton Stoner[January 1938]
RR/65/254Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The paramagnetism of the ferromagnetic elements' by Willie Sucksmith and R R PearceApril 1938
RR/40/66Referee's report by William Henry Bragg, on a paper 'The emission of secondary electrons and the excitation of soft X-rays' by Owen Willans RichardsonApril 1930
NLB/63/409Copy letter from unknown correspondent; to Professor [Owen Willans] Richardson, FRS09 October 1922
RR/66/209Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'On the photo-ionization of molecules' by B D Nag Chowdhuri and K Basu[March 1939]
RR/37/25Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on two papers 'The electrolytic behaviour of thin films. Part I.—Hydrogen' and 'On the electrolytic behaviour of thin films. Part II.—The areas of catalytically active surfaces' by Frank Philip Bowden and Eric Keightley Rideal1928
RR/40/117Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The rate of emission of alpha particles from radium' by F A B Ward, C E Wynn-Williams and H M CaveSeptember 1929
NLB/68/597Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Frederick Alexander] Lindemann, FRS16 September 1925
RR/69/256Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The surprising amount of energy which can be collected from gases after the electric discharge has passed' by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh 1946
RR/66/233Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The absorption spectra of conjugated dienes in the vacuum ultra-violet (1)' by William Charles Price and Arthur Donald Walsh[November 1939]
NLB/57/806Copy letter from Sir James Hopwood Jeans, FRS, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Richard [Tetley] Glazebrook, FRS, KCB12 February 1920
RR/68/406Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'Long duration of the Balmer spectrum in excited hydrogen' by Robert John Strutt[1943]
RR/68/226Referee's report by Arthur Mannering Tyndall, on a paper 'The secondary electron emission from metals in the low primary energy region' by Irena Gimpel and Owen Willans Richardson[1942]
RR/68/461Referee's report by William Edward Curtis, on a paper 'The fine structure of the spectral lines of H2: measurements with a reflexion echelon' by E W Foster and Owen Willans Richardson[1944]
NLB/64/687Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; Professor [Owen Willans] Richardson FRS2 June 1923
RR/29/51Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'Studies in brownian movement. II -The determination of avogadro's number from observations on bacteria (cocci)' by John H ShaxbySeptember 1923
RR/68/468Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The dissociation energies of CO, N2, NO and CN' by Alfred Gordon Gaydon and William George Penney[1944]
NLB/63/898Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Owen Willans] Richardson, FRS19 January 1923
RR/56/87Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The nuclear spin of iodine II-Fine structure in the arc spectrum and a fine structure perturbation effect' by Samuel Tolansky[July 1935]
NLB/67/211Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Owen Willans] Richardson, FRS13 November 1924
NLB/65/376Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Owen Willans] Richardson, FRS22 October 1923
RR/41/132Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The hyper-fine structure of the arc spectrum, and the nuclear rotation of indium' by Derek Ainslie Jackson1930
RR/41/59Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'Critical potentials for the excitation of soft x-rays from iron' by Ann Catherine Davies and Frank Horton1930
NLB/64/582Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Owen Willans] Richardson, FRS07 May 1923
RR/31/14Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The interpretation of the results of Bucherer's experiments on e/m' by Thomas Lewis[November 1924]
RR/55/3Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The effect of secondary emission upon the fluctuations of the current in a triode (shot effect)' by W H Aldous and N R Campbell11 April 1935
RR/36/58Referee's report by Ralph Howard Fowler, on a paper 'On the extraction of electrons from cold conductors in intense electric fields' by Owen Willans Richardson[January 1928]
RR/38/70Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on three papers 'The structure and activation of the phosgene molecule. Part I.—General introduction—Predissociation of molecules', 'The structure and activation of the phosgene molecule. Part II.—The Raman spectrum of phosgene' and 'The structure and activation of the phosgene molecule. Part III.—A study of the ultra-violet absorption spectrum of phosgene vapour' by Vector Henri and Owen Rhys HowellApril 1930
NLB/65/176Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Owen Willans] Richardson, FRS8 September 1923
NLB/64/869Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh5 July 1923
RR/31/76Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'Experiments on the effects of resistance in the oscillating circuit of a triode' by J H Vincent and A L Beak[February 1925]
NLB/65/223Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS24 September 1923
NLB/65/217Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Owen Willans] Richardson, FRS22 September 1923
NLB/65/92Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Frederick Alexander] Lindemann, FRS; circulated to all members of the Physics Committee26 July 1923
NLB/65/341Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS16 October 1923
NLB/66/208Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Richard Glazebrook, FRS14 March 1924
NLB/70/875Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Owen Willans] Richardson, FRS26 October 1927
NLB/65/863Copy letter from David Prain, Treasurer of the Royal Society; to Professor [Owen Willans] Richardson, FRS18 January 1924
NLB/67/306Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to H. S. Harley Esq.; Accountant, King's College, Strand, W.C.2.3 December 1924
NLB/65/905Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Owen Willans] Richardson, FRS25 January 1924
NLB/67/127Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Owen Willans] Richardson, FRS30 October 1924
NLB/67/13Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Owen Willans] Richardson, FRS30 September 1924
NLB/64/167Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Owen Willans] Richardson, FRS15 February 1923
NLB/65/103Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS31 July 1923
NLB/67/252Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Owen Willans] Richardson, FRS21 November 1924
NLB/66/249Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Ernest] Barker, Principle of King's College, London, W.C.227 March 1924
NLB/67/477Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Owen Willans] Richardson, FRS6 January 1925
NLB/67/553Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Owen Willans] Richardson, FRS22 January 1925
NLB/66/741Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Owen Willans] Richardson, FRS2 July 1924
RR/40/72Referee's report by William Henry Bragg, on a paper 'The excitation of soft X-rays from a single crystal face of nickel' by Owen Willans Richardson and S. Ramachandra RaoApril 1930
NLB/68/201Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Owen Willans] Richardson, FRS28 May 1925
NLB/66/292Copy letter from [the Secretary of] the Royal Society; to The Times, The Morning Post, Nature, The Daily Telegraph and the Press Association4 April 1924
NLB/67/530Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Owen Willans] Richardson, FRS15 January 1925
NLB/66/408Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS3 May 1924
NLB/68/55Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Alfred] Fowler, FRS7 May 1925
NLB/67/223Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Owen Willans] Richardson, FRS14 November 1924
NLB/70/533Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Owen Willans] Richardson, FRS5 May 1927
NLB/68/676Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Owen Willans] Richardson, FRS8 October 1925
RR/36/55Referee's report by Alfred Fowler, on a paper 'Note on a connection between the visible and ultra-violet bands of hydrogen' by Owen Willans Richardson6 March 1927
NLB/66/871Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Owen Willians] Richardson, FRS1 August 1924
NLB/68/581Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Owen Willans] Richardson, FRS5 September 1925
NLB/68/592Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Owen Willans] Richardson, FRS11 September 1925
NLB/68/748Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Owen Willans] Richardson, FRS29 October 1925
NLB/71/389Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Owen Willans] Richardson, FRS28 April 1928
NLB/70/188Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Owen Willans] Richardson, FRS28 January 1927
NLB/70/771Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Owen Willans] Richardson, FRS29 July 1927
NLB/68/585Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Owen Willans] Richardson, FRS8 September 1925
NLB/69/538Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Owen Willans] Richardson, FRS2 June 1926
NLB/69/821Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Owen Willans] Richardson, FRS26 October 1926
NLB/71/266Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the General Manager, Clerical, Medical and General Life Assurance Society, 15 St.James's Square, SW15 March 1928
NLB/71/102Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the General Manager, Legal and General Assurance Society, 10 Fleet Street, EC46 January 1928
NLB/71/83Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Owen Willians] Richardson, FRS23 December 1927
NLB/71/753Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Owen Willians] Richardson, FRS24 October 1928
NLB/71/834Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Owen Willans] Richardson, FRS12 November 1928
NLB/71/986Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the General Manager, Legal and General Assurance Society, 10 Fleet Street, EC47 January 1929
NLB/72/512Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Owen Willans] Richardson, FRS22 November 1929
NLB/71/987Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the General Manager, Clerical, Medical and General Life Assurance Society, 15 St. James's Square, SW17 January 1929
NLB/73/7Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Charles Thomson Rees] Wilson, FRS8 October 1930
CD/41Documents on Owen Willans Richardson's request for a microphotometer, for the consideration of Council of the Royal Society1925
NLB/64/729Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Horace] Lamb [Chairman of the Mathematics Committee] FRS11 June 1923
NLB/68/68Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Owen Willans] Richardson, FRS8 May 1925
NLB/65/16Copy letter from [James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society]; to Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS13 July 1923
NLB/65/525Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS13 November 1923
NLB/66/38Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS12 February 1924
NLB/66/133Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh.28 February 1924
RR/31/45Referee's report by Sydney Chapman, on a paper 'Thermodynamics of electron emission' by Owen Willans Richardson[February 1924]
RR/24/75Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'Experiments on tribo-electricity. I.—The tribo-electric series' by P E Shaw[June 1917]
NLB/54/596Copy letter from Dr. Arthur Schuster, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Owen Willans] Richardson, FRS28 June 1917
RR/42/22Referee's report by Alfred Fowler, on a paper 'The spectrum of H2.-The bands ending on 2p3II levels' by Owen Willans Richardson and P M DavidsonMarch 1931
RR/36/57Referee's report by Alfred Fowler, on a paper 'On the intensity distribution among the lines of certain bands in the spectrum of the hydrogen molecule' by Owen Willans Richardson16 August 1927
RR/32/112Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The atomic disintegration of nitrogen in vacuum tubes' by R W Riding and Edward Charles Cyril Baly20 June 1925
RR/37/39Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The chemical reaction of carbon monoxide and hydrogen after collision with electrons' by A Caress and Eric Keightley Rideal1928
RR/59/50Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The interaction of atoms and molecules with solid surfaces VIII—The exchange of energy between a gas and a solid' by A F Devonshire[October 1936]
RR/39/85Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The spark spectrum of thallium, Tl II.—Term analysis.—Fine structure of lines' by John Cunningham McLennan, A B McLay and M F Crawford[September 1929]
RR/36/97Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The emission of light by flames containing sodium and the absorption of light by mercury vapour' by Harold Albert Wilson[December 1927]
RR/39/66Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The ionisation of potassium vapour' by Robert William Ditchburn and F L Arnot[February 1929]
NLB/60/11Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Owen Willans] Richardson, FRS2 December 1920
RR/62/2Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'On the action of ultra-violet sunlight upon the upper atmosphere' by Meghnad N Saha[November 1936]
RR/16/97Referee's report by Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, on a paper 'The electrical conductivity imparted to a vacuum by hot conductors' by Owen Willans Richardson18 March 1903
RR/58/51Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The interaction of atoms and molecules with solid surfaces IV?The condensation and evaporation of atoms and molecules' by John Edward Lennard-Jones and A F DevonshireApril 1936
RR/62/58Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'Fine structure in the arc spectrum of platinum (A) The nuclear spin of pt 195 (B) Even isotope displacement' by Samuel Tolansky and E Lee[July 1936]
RR/54/103Referee's report by William Edward Curtis, on a paper 'The spectrum of H2 Part II. The band systems due to transitions from four new triplet states to 2p3' by Owen Willans Richardson and T B RymerJuly 1934
RR/56/35Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The change in the absorption spectrum of cobalt chloride in aqueous hydrochloric acid solution with change of temperature' by Owen Rhys Howell and Albert Jackson[November 1935]
RR/64/127Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The absorption spectra of sulphur dioxide and carbon disulphide in the vacuum ultra-violet' by William Charles Price and D M Simpson[January 1938]
RR/40/69Referee's report by Alfred Fowler, on two papers 'The singlet bands of the hydrogen molecule. Part III' and 'The singlet bands of the hydrogen molecule. Part III' by Owen Willans Richardson and P M DavidsonMarch 1929
RR/66/89Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The mean free path of electrons in polar crystals' by Herbert Fröhlich and Nevill Francis Mott[May 1939]
RR/66/130Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'Coriolis perturbations in the methane spectrum. IV. Four general types of Coriolis perturbation' by H A Jahn[1939]
RR/51/86Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on two papers 'The electrical condition of hot surfaces during the adsorption of gases. Part V.—The charging up of hot surfaces' by J C Stimson, and 'The electrical condition of hot surfaces. Part VI.—A gold surface catalysing the combustion of carbonic oxide' by George Ingle Finch and B W Bradford[1933]
NLB/66/387Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS30 April 1924
NLB/64/677Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh FRS31 May 1923
NLB/69/39Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Owen Willans] Richardson, FRS16 December 1925
NLB/59New Letter Book volume 59, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration9 July 1920-2 December 1920
NLB/66/506Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS20 May 1924
NLB/66/878Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS1 August 1924
NLB/69/146Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Geoffrey Ingram] Taylor, FRS21 January 1926
NLB/71/498Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the General Manager, The Thermal Syndicate, Ltd., Neptune Bank, Wallsend-on-Tyne14 June 1928
NLB/67New Letter Book volume 67, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration26 September 1924-23 April 1925
NLB/71New Letter Book volume 71, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration1 December 1927-14 January 1929
NLB/64/712Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh7 June 1923
NLB/65/766Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS21 December 1923
IM/003816Richardson, Sir Owen Willans1922
RR/44/84Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The gyromagnetic ratio for paramagnetic substances. III.—Results on salts of the rare earth group' by Willie Sucksmith1931
RR/29/49Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'On the scattering of X- and Y- rays by rings of electrons. The effect of damping of the incident radiation' by George Adolphus SchottJune 1923
RR/44/112Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'Estimation of metals in solution by means of their spark spectra' by Frank Twyman and C Stansfield Hitchen1931
RR/28/29Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The influence of frequency of current on the electrical ignition of gases' by William Mandell Thornton[January 1923]
RR/51/7Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'Molecular structure as determined by a new electron diffraction method II—The halogen-carbon bond distance in some simple benzene derivatives' by Henry de Laszlo[May 1934]
RR/59/53Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The absorption of light in caesium vapour in the presence of foreign gases' by Robert William Ditchburn and J Harding[June 1936]
RR/66/74Referee's report by William Edward Curtis, on a paper 'Determinations of the Rydberg constants, e/m, and the fine structures of Ha and Da by means of a reflexion echelon' by J W Drinkwater, Owen Willans Richardson and W Ewart Williams[October 1939]
AP/80/11Unpublished paper, 'On the velocities of two distinct groups of secondary corpuscular rays produced by a homogeneous Röntgen radiation and their absorption coefficients in various gases' by Lewis Simons1918
RR/40/45Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The direction of magnetisation of single ferromagnetic crystals' by F C PowellSeptember 1930
RR/34/39Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'On the determination of the specific heats of gases at constant pressure' by Charles Herbert Lees17 May 1926
AP/80/12/1Unpublished manuscript, 'Some experiments on the proportionality of mass and weight' by Harold H PotterFebruary 1922
RR/48/81Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on two papers 'The electrical condition of hot surfaces during the adsorption of gases. Part V.—The charging up of hot surfaces' by J C Stimson, and 'The electrical condition of hot surfaces. Part VI.—A gold surface catalysing the combustion of carbonic oxide' by George Ingle Finch and B W Bradford[1933]
AP/80/12Unpublished paper, 'Some experiments on the proportionality of mass and weight' by Harold H PotterFebruary 1922
RR/21/98Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'On the conductivity of salt vapours' by S J Kalandyk[June 1914]
RR/22/93Referee's report by John Sealy Edward Townsend, on a paper 'The influence of gases on the emission of electrons and ions from hot metals' by Owen Willans Richardson7 June 1915
RR/25/22Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'An inverstigation of the ionising power of the positive ions from a glowing tantalum filament in helium' by Frank Horton and Ann Catherine Davies[September 1918]
RR/31/34Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The use of the coherer to investigate adsorption films' by William George Palmer[May 1924]
RR/32/110Referee's report by Frederick Alexander Lindemann, on a paper 'The emissions of soft X-rays by different elements' by Owen Willans Richardson and F S ChalkinNovember 1925
RR/33/75Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'On the rate of maximum activation by collision for complex molecules with applications to velocities of gas reactions' by Ralph Howard Fowler and Eric Keightley RidealNovember 1926
RR/36/9Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'Intensities in the secondary spectrum of hydrogen at various temperatures' by John Cunningham McLennan, H Grayson Smith and W T Collins[July 1927]
RR/37/40Second referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The chemical reaction of carbon monoxide and hydrogen after collision with electrons' by A Caress and Eric Keightley RidealJune 1928
RR/38/122Referee's report by Alfred Fowler, on a paper 'The spectrum of H2: The bands analogous to the ortho-helium line spectrum' by Owen Willans Richardson and K Das3 January 1929
RR/38/131Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'A discussion of the effects of shape and emissivityupon the thermal radiation between a body and its surroundings' by Owen Alfred Saunders1928
RR/40/67Referee's report by Alfred Fowler, on a paper 'The singlet bands of the hydrogen molecule. Part I' by Owen Willans Richardson and P M Davidson1929
RR/40/68Referee's report by Alfred Fowler, on a paper 'The singlet bands of the hydrogen molecule. Part II' by Owen Willans Richardson and P M DavidsonFebruary 1929
RR/40/74Referee's report by Charles Glover Barkla, on a paper 'The emission of electrons under the influence of chemical action at lower gas pressures' by Owen Willans Richardson and L G GrimmettOctober 1930
RR/42/59Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The gyromagnetic effect for paramagnetic substances.—I. Description of method and results on dysprosium oxide' by Willie SucksmithMarch 1930
RR/46/73Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'Fluorescent excitation of mercury by the resonance frequency and by lower frequencies.—V' by Robert John Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh[December 1932]
RR/46/74Referee's report by Alfred Fowler, on a paper 'The spectrum of H2-The bands ending on 2p3II levels. Part II' by Owen Willans Richardson and P M Davidson5 January 1933
RR/53/42Referee's report by John Edward Lennard-Jones, on a paper 'The emission of electrons under the influence of chemical action. Part III.—The action of Cl2, Br2, I2, NOCl, HCl, N2O, and COS on NaK2' by A K Denisoff and Owen Willans Richardson[March 1934]
RR/56/44Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'Wave- length standards in the first spectrum of krypton' by C V Jackson[February 1936]
RR/63/71Referee's report by Alfred Fowler, on a paper 'The band systems ending on the 1so2so1Eg(1Xg) state of H2—Part I' by Owen Willans Richardson18 February 1937
RR/65/205Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'Rotational analysis of the first negative band spectrum of oxygen' by Thomas E NevinApril 1938
RR/66/232Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'The absorption spectra of ethylene, deutero-ethylene and some alkyl-substituted ethylenes in the vacuum ultra-violet' by William Charles Price and William Thomas Tutte[November 1939]
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