Ralph H. Fowler

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University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

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Introduced the theory of field emission from bulk metals and formulated the zeroth law of thermodynamics. Also worked with Dirac on the statistical mechanics of white dwarf stars.

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http://www-outreach.phy.cam.ac.uk/museumll379/portraits/display.html?id=42

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17 January 1889 - 28 July 1944
http://www.jstor.org/stable/531394
http://www.scs.illinois.edu/~mainzv/Web_Genealogy/Info/fowlerrh.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_H._Fowler

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Parents

Archibald Vivian Hill	grad student	1915	Cambridge
Ernest Rutherford	research scientist	1919	Cambridge
(War-time service under Hill, back to Cambridge 1919 to work in Rutherford's lab)

Children

Edward Armand Guggenheim	research assistant		Cambridge (Chemistry Tree)
Nevill Francis Mott	grad student		Cambridge
Maurice Henry Lecorney Pryce	grad student		Cambridge
George Stanley Rushbrooke	grad student		(Computer Science Tree)
John Lennard-Jones	grad student	1924	Cambridge
Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac	grad student	1926	Cambridge
Douglas R. Hartree	grad student	1926	Cambridge
Llewellyn H. Thomas	grad student	1927	Cambridge
William Hunter McCrea	grad student	1929	Cambridge (Astronomy Tree)
Harrie Massey	grad student	1932	Cambridge
Subramanyan Chandrasekhar	grad student	1933	Cambridge
Homi Jehangir Bhabha	grad student	1935	Cambridge
Richard Arthur Buckingham	grad student	1936	Cambridge
Félix Cernuschi	grad student	1938	Cambridge (Astronomy Tree)
T.S. (宗燧) Chang (张)	grad student	1938	Cambridge
J.S. (竹溪) Wang (王)	grad student	1938	Cambridge
John Currie Gunn	grad student	1939	Cambridge
Laurence Chisholm Young	grad student	1939	Cambridge (MathTree)
Neville Temperley	grad student	1940	Cambridge
John A. Sauer	grad student	1942	Cambridge
Harry Jones	post-doc		Cambridge
Meghnad Saha	post-doc	1920	Cambridge
Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim	post-doc	1927-1928	Cambridge
Hans Albrecht Bethe	post-doc	1930-1931	Cambridge

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Fowler RH, Milne EA. (1994) The maxima of absorption lines in stellar spectra (second paper) Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy. 15: 241-257
Chandrasekhar S, Fowler RH, Milne EA. (1931) The Dissociation Formula according to the Relativistic Statistics Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 91: 446-455
Fowler RH, Milne EA. (1925) A Note on the Principle of Detailed Balancing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 11: 400-2
Fowler RH, Milne EA. (1923) The Intensities of Absorption Lines in Stellar Spectra, and the Temperatures and Pressures in the Reversing Layers of Stars.: (Plates 15, 16.) Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 83: 403-424