Alfred Fowler
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Alfred Fowler (March 22 1868 – June 24 1940) was a British astronomer. Not to be confused with the American William Alfred Fowler, who lived later.
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.
He won the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1915, and the Henry Draper Medal in 1920. He won the Bruce Medal in 1934.
A crater on the Moon is jointly named after him and Ralph H. Fowler.
External links
- Bruce Medal page (http://www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/BruceMedalists/FowlerA/index.html)
- Awarding of Bruce medal: PASP 46 (1934) 87 (http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/PASP./0046//0000087.000.html)
- Awarding of RAS gold medal: MNRAS 75 (1915) 355 (http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/MNRAS/0075//0000355.000.html)
Obituaries
- ApJ 94 (1941) 1 (http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/ApJ../0094//0000001.000.html)
- MNRAS 101 (1941) 132 (http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/MNRAS/0101//0000132.000.html)
- Obs 63 (1940) 262 (http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/Obs../0063//0000262.000.html)
- PASP 52 (1940) 301 (http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/PASP./0052//0000301.000.html) (one paragraph)