Alfred Fowler
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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.
[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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