Ralph H. Fowler
Affiliations: | University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom |
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Introduced the theory of field emission from bulk metals and formulated the zeroth law of thermodynamics. Also worked with Dirac on the statistical mechanics of white dwarf stars.Website:
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"Ralph Howard Fowler"Bio:
17 January 1889 - 28 July 1944
http://www.jstor.org/stable/531394
http://www.scs.illinois.edu/~mainzv/Web_Genealogy/Info/fowlerrh.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_H._Fowler
Mean distance: 9.27 | S | N | B | C | P |
Parents
Sign in to add mentorArchibald Vivian Hill | grad student | 1915 | Cambridge | |
Ernest Rutherford | research scientist | 1919 | Cambridge | |
(War-time service under Hill, back to Cambridge 1919 to work in Rutherford's lab) |
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Fowler RH, Milne EA. (1994) The maxima of absorption lines in stellar spectra (second paper) Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy. 15: 241-257 |
Chandrasekhar S, Fowler RH, Milne EA. (1931) The Dissociation Formula according to the Relativistic Statistics Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 91: 446-455 |
Fowler RH, Milne EA. (1925) A Note on the Principle of Detailed Balancing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 11: 400-2 |
Fowler RH, Milne EA. (1923) The Intensities of Absorption Lines in Stellar Spectra, and the Temperatures and Pressures in the Reversing Layers of Stars.: (Plates 15, 16.) Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 83: 403-424 |