Ralph H. Fowler
British physicist and astronomer (1889–1944) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sir Ralph Howard Fowler OBE FRS[1] (17 January 1889 – 28 July 1944) was a British physicist and astronomer and physical chemist.
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Ralph Howard Fowler | |
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Born | (1889-01-17)17 January 1889 Fedsden, Roydon, Essex, England |
Died | 28 July 1944(1944-07-28) (aged 55) Trumpington, Cambridgeshire, England |
Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
Known for | Fowler–Nordheim-type equations Fowler–Nordheim tunneling Darwin-Fowler method Bernal–Fowler rules Field electron emission Degenerate stars Zeroth law of thermodynamics |
Awards | Rayleigh Prize (1913) Adams Prize (1924) Royal Medal (1936) Fellow of the Royal Society[1] |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Statistical physics |
Institutions | Cambridge University |
Academic advisors | Archibald Vivian Hill |
Doctoral students | Garrett Birkhoff S. Chandrasekhar Paul Dirac Wang Zhuxi Homi J. Bhabha Douglas Rayner Hartree John Lennard-Jones Harrie Massey William McCrea Nevill Francis Mott Maurice Pryce Daulat Singh Kothari[2] Bertha Swirles |
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