Alfred Fowler
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Alfred Fowler (March 22, 1868 – June 24, 1940) was a British 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.
[edit] 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)
[edit] External links
- Bruce Medal page
- Awarding of Bruce medal: PASP 46 (1934) 87
- Awarding of RAS gold medal: MNRAS 75 (1915) 355
[edit] Obituaries
- ApJ 94 (1941) 1
- MNRAS 101 (1941) 132
- Obs 63 (1940) 262
- PASP 52 (1940) 301 (one paragraph)
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