Ralph H. Fowler
Sir Ralph Howard Fowler OBE FRS (17 January 1889 – 28 July 1944) was a British physicist and astronomer and physical chemist.
Ralph Howard Fowler | |
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| Born | 17 January 1889 Fedsden, Roydon, Essex, England |
| Died | 28 July 1944 (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 |
| 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 Bertha Swirles |
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