• Sir Ralph Howard Fowler OBE FRS (17 January 1889 – 28 July 1944) was a British physicist and astronomer and physical chemist. Fowler was born at Roydon...
    12 KB (1,137 words) - 22:42, 21 February 2024
  • by Ralph H. Fowler and Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim. A family of approximate equations, Fowler–Nordheim equations, is named after them. Strictly, Fowler–Nordheim...
    125 KB (16,022 words) - 09:14, 8 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Zeroth law of thermodynamics
    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...
    21 KB (2,713 words) - 22:14, 18 March 2024
  • 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...
    10 KB (1,844 words) - 16:57, 7 April 2023
  • Thumbnail for Laws of thermodynamics
    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...
    20 KB (2,775 words) - 16:40, 1 April 2024
  • 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...
    4 KB (418 words) - 19:03, 5 March 2023
  • 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...
    12 KB (1,737 words) - 15:48, 19 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for John Lennard-Jones
    John Lennard-Jones (category Articles with hCards)
    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...
    16 KB (1,571 words) - 15:46, 3 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Archibald Hill
    Archibald Hill (category Articles with hCards)
    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...
    25 KB (2,759 words) - 22:07, 18 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Chandrasekhar–Eddington dispute
    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 for collapsing...
    12 KB (1,564 words) - 14:02, 5 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rudolf Peierls
    Rudolf Peierls (category Articles with hCards)
    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...
    42 KB (5,010 words) - 03:01, 24 January 2024
  • 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...
    24 KB (3,163 words) - 18:51, 25 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Homi J. Bhabha
    Homi J. Bhabha (redirect from H. J. Bhabha)
    working towards his PhD degree in theoretical physics supervised by Ralph Fowler. At the time, the laboratory was the centre of several breakthroughs...
    114 KB (13,196 words) - 08:14, 17 April 2024
  • many-particle Schrödinger equation. In 1926, the British physicist Ralph H. Fowler observed that the relationship between the density, energy, and temperature...
    34 KB (3,928 words) - 03:34, 4 March 2024
  • 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...
    19 KB (2,357 words) - 10:44, 16 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Thermionic emission
    assumptions) were put forward for AG, by Richardson, Saul Dushman, Ralph H. Fowler, Arnold Sommerfeld and Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim. Over 60 years later...
    30 KB (3,377 words) - 20:01, 25 March 2024
  • share the "Fowler" surname: Arthur Fowler Arthur Brian Fowler Bex Fowler Gill Fowler Hope Fowler Lily Fowler Lisa Fowler Mark Fowler Mark Fowler (2016 character)...
    14 KB (1,661 words) - 07:07, 13 April 2024
  • Salmon Wollaston Medal for Geology: Thomas George Bonney January 17 – Ralph H. Fowler (died 1944), English physicist and astronomer. March 21 – Frederick...
    10 KB (1,038 words) - 15:14, 15 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Meghnad Saha
    Meghnad Saha (category Articles with hCards)
    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...
    22 KB (1,979 words) - 17:14, 12 April 2024
  • (1819–1868) Joseph Fourier – France (1768–1830) Ralph H. Fowler – U.K. (1889–1944) William Alfred Fowler – United States (1911–1995) Nobel laureate James...
    60 KB (7,108 words) - 21:53, 9 April 2024
  • 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...
    2 KB (218 words) - 18:38, 15 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Alfred Fowler
    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,...
    15 KB (1,312 words) - 19:36, 4 September 2023
  • Nicholson 1921 William Mitchinson Hicks 1922 Joseph Proudman 1924 Ralph H. Fowler 1926 Harold Jeffreys 1928 Sydney Chapman 1930 Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch...
    14 KB (1,244 words) - 23:36, 1 April 2024
  • (1888–1976) Hans Thirring (1888–1976) Paul Peter Ewald (1888–1985) Ralph H. Fowler (1889–1944) Léon Brillouin (1889–1969) Wojciech Rubinowicz (1889–1974)...
    71 KB (7,882 words) - 23:46, 11 April 2024
  • (1930) Eileen Mary Fowler, née Rutherford (1930), only daughter of Ernest Rutherford, wife of Ralph H. Fowler and mother of Ruth Fowler Edwards Louie McLean...
    75 KB (9,857 words) - 16:22, 6 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mary Fowler (geologist)
    grandfather, Rutherford's son-in-law, was the mathematical physicist Ralph H. Fowler. She studied mathematics at Girton College, Cambridge, graduating with...
    11 KB (706 words) - 03:23, 19 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
    Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (category Articles with hCards)
    States. He was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in physics along with William A. Fowler for "...theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the...
    60 KB (5,694 words) - 21:21, 10 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Quebec Agreement
    States by Ralph H. Fowler, the British scientific attaché to Canada. Cockcroft, a member of the Tizard Mission, brought more. Cockcroft and Fowler met with...
    61 KB (7,831 words) - 09:44, 9 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fowler (crater)
    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...
    6 KB (434 words) - 01:58, 26 January 2024
  • Zhang Zongsui (category Articles with hCards)
    in the UK, earning his PhD from the University of Cambridge under Ralph H. Fowler. Then he worked in the Niels Bohr Institute under the leadership of...
    4 KB (259 words) - 15:13, 25 February 2022