Alfred Fowler

Alfred Fowler

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birth_place = Yorkshire, United Kingdom
death_date = death date and age|1940|6|24|1868|3|22
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fields = Astronomy
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awards = Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1915)
Royal Medal (1918)
Henry Draper Medal (1920)
Bruce Medal (1934)
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Alfred Fowler (March 22 1868 Yorkshire – June 24 1940) was an English astronomer.

He was an expert in spectroscopy, being one of the first to determine that the temperature of sunspots was cooler than that of surrounding regions.

Honours

Awards
*Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1915)
*Royal Medal (1918)
*Henry Draper Medal (1920)
*Bruce Medal (1934)Named after him
*Fowler crater on the Moon (jointly with Ralph H. Fowler)

External links

* [http://www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/BruceMedalists/FowlerA/index.html Bruce Medal page]
* [http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/PASP./0046//0000087.000.html Awarding of Bruce medal: PASP 46 (1934) 87]
* [http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/MNRAS/0075//0000355.000.html Awarding of RAS gold medal: MNRAS 75 (1915) 355]

Obituaries

* [http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/ApJ../0094//0000001.000.html ApJ 94 (1941) 1]
* [http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/MNRAS/0101//0000132.000.html MNRAS 101 (1941) 132]
* [http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/Obs../0063//0000262.000.html Obs 63 (1940) 262]
* [http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/PASP./0052//0000301.000.html PASP 52 (1940) 301] (one paragraph)


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