Sir Ralph Howard Fowler (17 January 1889 – 28 July 1944) was an English physicist, astronomer and physical chemist. Fowler was born at Roydon, Essex, on...

by Ralph H. Fowler and Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim. A family of approximate equations, Fowler–Nordheim equations, is named after them. Strictly, Fowler–Nordheim...

entropy, which is defined in the second law. The law was established by Ralph H. Fowler in the 1930s, long after the first, second, and third laws had been...

stated in the nineteenth century. The name 'zeroth law' was invented by Ralph H. Fowler in the 1930s, long after the first, second, and third laws were widely...

Fowler is a large lunar impact crater that lies in the northern hemisphere on the Moon's far side. It lies to the south-southwest of the crater Esnault-Pelterie...

Darwin–Fowler method is used for deriving the distribution functions with mean probability. It was developed by Charles Galton Darwin and Ralph H. Fowler in...

ice. They are also known as Bernal–Fowler rules, after British physicists John Desmond Bernal and Ralph H. Fowler who first described them in 1933. The...

is known. Henry Fowler made several lifelong friends at Sedbergh, who often accompanied him on holiday to the Alps. These included Ralph St John Ainslie...

Anti-Aircraft Experimental Section, a team of men too old for conscription, Ralph H. Fowler (a wounded officer), and lads too young for service including Douglas...

then at the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge under Ralph H. Fowler. Because of his Jewish background, he elected to not return home after...

after him The crater Fowler on the Moon (jointly with Ralph H. Fowler) The Spectra of Metallic Arcs in an Exhausted Globe (with H Page, (Proc Roy Soc,...

Exhibition at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was supervised by Ralph H. Fowler and graduated with a second doctorate in 1924. Lennard-Jones is well...

radioactive substances’ (Eve and Chadwick, 1938). Her father was Sir Ralph Fowler FRS (1889–1944; Milne, 1945), who was Plummer Professor of Mathematical...

Nicholson 1921 William Mitchinson Hicks 1922 Joseph Proudman 1924 Ralph H. Fowler 1926 Harold Jeffreys 1928 Sydney Chapman 1930 Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch...

region with quantum effects a "wholly degenerate gas". Also in 1927 Ralph H. Fowler applied Fermi's model to the puzzle of the stability of white dwarf...

working towards his PhD degree in theoretical physics supervised by Ralph Fowler. At the time, the laboratory was the centre of several breakthroughs...

and no net change of ionization will occur. In the early twenties Ralph H. Fowler (in collaboration with Charles Galton Darwin) developed a new method...

assumptions) were put forward for AG, by Richardson, Saul Dushman, Ralph H. Fowler, Arnold Sommerfeld and Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim. Over 60 years later...

Fowler (1823–1879), pioneering American physician, activist, and professor of medicine. Orson Squire Fowler (1809–1887), American phrenologist Ralph H...

Salmon Wollaston Medal for Geology: Thomas George Bonney January 17 – Ralph H. Fowler (died 1944), English physicist and astronomer. March 21 – Frederick...

1923 where he studied Mathematics, later gaining a PhD in 1929 under Ralph H. Fowler. From 1930 he lectured in Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh...

and in the nascent field of quantum physics, under the supervision of Ralph Fowler. From 1925 to 1928 he held an 1851 Research Fellowship from the Royal...

suggested that it could not be the case as stars radiate and cool down. Ralph H. Fowler solved this issue by considering that the white dwarf is held from...

many-particle Schrödinger equation. In 1926, the British physicist Ralph H. Fowler observed that the relationship between the density, energy, and temperature...

They were named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Sir Ralph H. Fowler (1889–1944), an English physicist, joint author with J.D. Bernal of...

ionisation state of the elements making up the star. This was extended by Ralph H. Fowler and Edward Arthur Milne. Saha had previously reached the following...

the occasion of the centennial of his birth MPC · 2761 2762 Fowler 1981 AT Ralph H. Fowler (1889–1944), British astrophysicist MPC · 2762 2763 Jeans 1982...

grandfather, Rutherford's son-in-law, was the mathematical physicist Ralph H. Fowler, and her mother Rosemary discovered the kaon, or K meson particle,...

groundbreaking paper deriving the Onsager reciprocal relations 1935 – Ralph H. Fowler invents the title 'the zeroth law of thermodynamics' to summarise postulates...

(1819–1868) Joseph Fourier – France (1768–1830) Ralph H. Fowler – U.K. (1889–1944) William Alfred Fowler – United States (1911–1995) Nobel laureate James...