- Alfred Fowler
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birth_date = birth date|1868|3|22
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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footnotes =Alfred Fowler (
March 22 1868 Yorkshire –June 24 1940 ) was an Englishastronomer .He was an expert in
spectroscopy , being one of the first to determine that the temperature ofsunspot s 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 theMoon (jointly withRalph 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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