Alfred Fowler

Date of Birth	22-March-1868
Place of Birth	Yorkshire (England, United Kingdom)
Nationality	United Kingdom
Profession	Astronomer
Alfred Fowler, CBE FRS was an English astronomer. Not to be confused with American astrophysicist William Alfred Fowler. He was born in Wilsden, Yorkshire and educated at London's Normal School of Science, which was later absorbed into Imperial College, London. He was appointed Instructor of Astrophysics at Imperial College and worked there until his death. 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. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1910, when his citation read Fowler was president of the Royal Astronomical Society from 1919 to 1921 and died in Ealing, London in 1940.

Awards by Alfred Fowler

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Henry Draper Medal	(For his researches in celestial and laboratory spectroscopy, which have led to a valuable increase of our knowledge of sun spots, comets, and the stars--especially of red stars of Secchi's Type III.)