Ralph H. Fowler Scientist

Sir Ralph Howard Fowler OBE FRS (17 January 1889 – 28 July 1944) was a British physicist and astronomer.

Personal facts

Birth date	January 17, 1889
Birth place	United Kingdom , Roydon Essex , Fedsden
Nationality	England
Date of death	July 28, 1944
Place of death	Cambridge , United Kingdom , Trumpington Cambridgeshire
Education	University of Cambridge
Known for	Statistical physics Field electron emission

academic advisor	Archibald Hill
awards	Royal Society
doctoral student	Paul Dirac Nevill Francis Mott Bertha Swirles William McCrea (astronomer) John Lennard-Jones Harrie Massey Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Garrett Birkhoff Douglas Hartree Homi J. Bhabha
Field of study	Physicist