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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 . Education. Fowler was born at Roydon, Essex, on 17 January 1889 to Howard Fowler, from Burnham, Somerset, and Frances Eva, daughter of George Dewhurst, a cotton merchant from Manchester. [3] .
Ralph Howard Fowler was an English physicist and astronomer. He also worked on thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. View two larger pictures. Biography. Ralph Howard Fowler was the eldest son of Howard Fowler and Frances Eva (the daughter of George Dewhurst the Manchester cotton merchant).
An obituary notice of Ralph Fowler, a distinguished mathematician and physicist who died in 1944. It covers his life, education, achievements, personality and family background.
R.H. Fowler was, in and between the two world wars, a pre-eminent figure in mathematical physics, both nationally and internationally. He influenced nearly everyone then active in the field and was very well known in his own time.
Sir Ralph Howard Fowler OBE FRS (17 January 1889 – 28 July 1944) was a British physicist and astronomer. He won a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge. In the First World War he obtained a commission in the Royal Marine Artillery and was seriously wounded in his shoulder in the Gallipoli Campaign.
Ralph Howard Fowler (1889 - 1944) was a British theoretical physicist and physical chemist who was a top class scientist in many areas, mainly in statistical mechanics, quantum mechanics, nuclear physics, condensed matter physics and theoretical astrophysics.
Sir Ralph Fowler, Plummer Professor of Mathematical Physics at Cambridge, died on 28 July 1944, at the age of fifty-five, as the result of an illness which first attacked him in 1938.
