richardson

richardson — noun

1. The pen name of Australian novelist Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson (1870–194

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The pen name of Australian novelist Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson (1870–1946), best known for works such as The Getting of Wisdom and the trilogy The Fortunes of Richard Mahony.

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Yumi wrote a report on Henry Handel Richardson's novel The Getting of Wisdom.

Scholars note that Henry Handel Richardson's trilogy portrays gold-rush-era settlers.

surname used with literary credentials

2. An influential American architect (1838–1886) who designed buildings in a distin

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An influential American architect (1838–1886) who designed buildings in a distinctive Romanesque style, known as Richardsonian Romanesque, with notable works including Trinity Church in Boston.

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Élise admired the granite arches designed by Henry Hobson Richardson.

surname used with architectural reference

Architecture students study Henry Hobson Richardson's Trinity Church as an American masterpiece.

3. An English physicist (1879–1959) who won the 1928 Nobel Prize in Physics for his

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An English physicist (1879–1959) who won the 1928 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on thermionic emission, a phenomenon that explains how electrons are released from heated metals.

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Christopher read about Richardson's law on electron emission from hot metals.

surname used in scientific term: Richardson's law

The Nobel Prize awarded to Sir Owen Willans Richardson honoured his thermionic research.

4. A celebrated British stage and screen actor (1902–1983), known for his commandin

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A celebrated British stage and screen actor (1902–1983), known for his commanding presence in Shakespearean roles and his collaborations with fellow actor Sir Laurence Olivier.

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Fans waited outside the stage door hoping to glimpse Sir Ralph Richardson.

Noor watched a recording of Sir Ralph Richardson playing King Lear.

surname used with Shakespearean theatre context

5. An American Nobel Prize-winning physicist (1937–2013) who shared the 1996 Nobel

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An American Nobel Prize-winning physicist (1937–2013) who shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of superfluidity in the rare isotope helium-3.

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Mert read about Robert Coleman Richardson's experiment on frictionless helium-3 flow.

surname used with research context

The Cornell lab where Robert Coleman Richardson worked bears his low-temperature legacy.

6. An English novelist (1689–1761) who wrote the influential early novels Pamela an

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An English novelist (1689–1761) who wrote the influential early novels Pamela and Clarissa, which helped shape the development of the epistolary novel form.

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Rodrigo's literature course required reading Samuel Richardson's Pamela this term.

surname used with literary reference

Clarissa by Samuel Richardson tells a tragic story through its characters' letters.

7. A city in northeastern Texas, situated just north of Dallas, known as a suburban

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A city in northeastern Texas, situated just north of Dallas, known as a suburban residential and commercial centre within the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area.

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The Watanabe family moved to Richardson because the schools had a strong reputation.

Arjun took the light-rail train from Dallas to his office in Richardson each morning.

surname used as toponym for a city