Emission of Electricity from Hot Bodies.

London:: Longmans, Green, 1921., 1921. Series: Monographs on Physics. 8vo. viii, 320 pp. 35 figs., index. Original navy black-printed cloth. Bookplate and signature of Ernest Needham Coleman. Very good. Second edition. Richardson was a British physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1928 for his work on thermionic emission, which led to Richardson's law. Provenance: Ernest Needham Coleman was a member of the British Astronomical Association. (Inventory #: SW1234)