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    Sir Ralph Howard Fowler OBE FRS (17 January 1889 – 28 July 1944) was an English physicist, astronomer and physical chemist. Fowler was born at Roydon,...
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  • by Ralph H. Fowler and Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim. A family of approximate equations, Fowler–Nordheim equations, is named after them. Strictly, Fowler–Nordheim...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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