For the American astrophysicist, see William Alfred Fowler.
Alfred Fowler
Born
(1868-03-22)22 March 1868
Yorkshire, England
Died
24 June 1940(1940-06-24) (aged 72)
Awards
Valz Prize (1913) Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1915) Royal Medal (1918) Henry Draper Medal (1920) Bruce Medal (1934)
Scientific career
Fields
Astronomy
Alfred Fowler, CBE FRS[1] (22 March 1868, in Yorkshire – 24 June 1940) was an English astronomer and spectroscopist. [2]
^Dingle, H. (1941). "Alfred Fowler. 1868-1940". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 3 (9): 483–497. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1941.0016. S2CID 161223573.
^Robotti, Nadia; Leone, Matteo, eds. (2007). "Fowler, Alfred". The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. New York, NY: Springer. pp. 380–381. doi:10.1007/978-0-387-30400-7_472. ISBN 978-0-387-31022-0. Retrieved 11 January 2023.
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