Alfred Fowler

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Alfred Fowler (March 22 1868 – June 24 1940) was a British astronomer.

He was an expert in spectroscopy, being one of the first to determine that the temperature of sunspots was cooler than that of surrounding regions.

Honours

Awards

• Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1915)
• Royal Medal (1918)
• Henry Draper Medal (1920)
• Bruce Medal (1934)

Named after him

• Fowler crater on the Moon (jointly with Ralph H. Fowler)

External links

• Bruce Medal page
• Awarding of Bruce medal: PASP 46 (1934) 87
• Awarding of RAS gold medal: MNRAS 75 (1915) 355

Obituaries

• ApJ 94 (1941) 1
• MNRAS 101 (1941) 132
• Obs 63 (1940) 262
• PASP 52 (1940) 301 (one paragraph)