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- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 17 January 1889
- Died
- 28 July 1944
- Conflict
- World War I, World War II, Gallipoli Campaign
- Place of birth
- Roydon
- Place of death
- Cambridge
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Fowler
- Father
- Howard Fowler
- Spouse
- Eileen Mary Rutherford
- Occupation
- physicist, cricketer, astronomer, university teacher, mathematician
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Awards
- Fellow of the Royal Society, Royal Medal, Fellow of the American Physical Society, Royal Society Bakerian Medal, Adams Prize, Officer of the Order of the British Empire, Knight Bachelor
- birth name
- Ralph Howard Fowler
- described by source
- Physicists: Biographical Dictionary
- doctoral advisor
- Archibald Hill, Ernest Rutherford
- doctoral student
- Nevill Francis Mott, John Lennard-Jones, Paul Dirac, Cecil Frank Powell, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Maurice Pryce, Homi Jehangir Bhabha, Richard Buckingham, Thomas MacFarland Cherry, Charles Coulson, Harrie Massey, William McCrea
- educated at
- Winchester College, Trinity College, University of Cambridge
- employer
- University of Cambridge, ORDNANCE BOARD
- interested in
- physics
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- member of
- Royal Society of London
- military branch
- Royal Marines
- name in native language
- Sir Ralph Howard Fowler
- notable work
- white dwarf, Darwin–Fowler method
- relative
- Ernest Rutherford
- residence
- United Kingdom
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