Alfred Fowler
| Alfred Fowler | |
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| Born |
22 March 1868 Yorkshire, England |
| Died | 24 June 1940 (aged 72) |
| Fields | Astronomy |
| Notable awards |
Valz Prize (1913) Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1915) Royal Medal (1918) Henry Draper Medal (1920) Bruce Medal (1934) |
Alfred Fowler, CBE FRS (22 March 1868, in Yorkshire – 24 June 1940) was an English astronomer. Not to be confused with American astrophysicist William Alfred Fowler.
He was born in Wilsden, Yorkshire and educated at London's Normal School of Science, which was later absorbed into Imperial College, London.
He was appointed Instructor (later Assistant Professor) of Astrophysics at Imperial College and worked there until his death. 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 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1910, when his citation read
Fowler was president of the Royal Astronomical Society from 1919 to 1921 and died in Ealing, London in 1940.
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