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Ralph H. Fowler, the Glossary

Sir Ralph Howard Fowler (17 January 1889 – 28 July 1944) was a British physicist, astronomer and physical chemist.^[1]

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Adams Prize

The Adams Prize is a prize awarded each year by the Faculty of Mathematics at St John's College to a UK-based mathematician for distinguished research in mathematical sciences.

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Aerodynamics

Aerodynamics (ἀήρ aero (air) + δυναμική (dynamics)) is the study of the motion of air, particularly when affected by a solid object, such as an airplane wing.

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Anti-Aircraft Experimental Section

The Anti-Aircraft Experimental Section of the Munitions Inventions Department was an organisation set up within Lloyd George's Ministry of Munitions in early 1916.

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Archibald Vivian Hill (26 September 1886 – 3 June 1977), better known to friends and colleagues as A. V. Hill, was a British physiologist, one of the founders of the diverse disciplines of biophysics and operations research. Ralph H. Fowler and Archibald Hill are Royal Medal winners.

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Arthur Eddington

Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington (28 December 1882 – 22 November 1944) was an English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician. Ralph H. Fowler and Arthur Eddington are Royal Medal winners.

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Astronomer

An astronomer is a scientist in the field of astronomy who focuses their studies on a specific question or field outside the scope of Earth.

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Bertha Swirles

Bertha Swirles, Lady Jeffreys (22 May 1903 – 18 December 1999) was an English physicist, academic and scientific author who carried out research on quantum theory in its early days.

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Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society

The Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society is an academic journal on the history of science published annually by the Royal Society.

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Burnham-on-Sea

Burnham-on-Sea is a seaside town in Somerset, England, at the mouth of the River Parrett, upon Bridgwater Bay.

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Cavendish Laboratory

The Cavendish Laboratory is the Department of Physics at the University of Cambridge, and is part of the School of Physical Sciences.

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Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game that is played between two teams of eleven players on a field, at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps.

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Crystal Sound

Crystal Sound is a sound in Antarctica between the southern part of the Biscoe Islands and the coast of Graham Land, with northern limit Cape Evensen to Cape Leblond and southern limit Holdfast Point, Roux Island, Liard Island and the Sillard Islands.

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Darwin College, Cambridge

Darwin College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.

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Darwin–Fowler method

In statistical mechanics, the Darwin–Fowler method is used for deriving the distribution functions with mean probability.

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Daulat Singh Kothari

Daulat Singh Kothari (6 July 1906 – 4 February 1993) was an Indian scientist and educationist.

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Degenerate matter

Degenerate matter occurs when the Pauli exclusion principle significantly alters a state of matter at low temperature.

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Douglas Hartree

Douglas Rayner Hartree (27 March 1897 – 12 February 1958) was an English mathematician and physicist most famous for the development of numerical analysis and its application to the Hartree–Fock equations of atomic physics and the construction of a differential analyser using Meccano. Ralph H. Fowler and Douglas Hartree are John Humphrey Plummer Professors.

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Edward A. Guggenheim

Edward Armand Guggenheim FRS (11 August 1901 – 9 August 1970) was an English physical chemist, noted for his contributions to thermodynamics.

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Edward Arthur Milne

Edward Arthur Milne FRS (14 February 1896 – 21 September 1950) was a British astrophysicist and mathematician. Ralph H. Fowler and Edward Arthur Milne are Royal Medal winners.

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Ernest Rutherford

Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, (30 August 1871 – 19 October 1937) was a New Zealand physicist who was a pioneering researcher in both atomic and nuclear physics.

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Essex

Essex is a ceremonial county in the East of England, and one of the home counties.

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Fellow of the Royal Society

Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the Fellows of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathematics, engineering science, and medical science".

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Field electron emission

Field electron emission, also known as field emission (FE) and electron field emission, is emission of electrons induced by an electrostatic field.

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Fowler Islands

The Fowler Islands are a group of small islands lying between the Bernal Islands and the Bragg Islands in Crystal Sound, off the coast of Antarctica.

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Gallipoli campaign

The Gallipoli campaign, the Dardanelles campaign, the Defence of Gallipoli or the Battle of Gallipoli (Gelibolu Muharebesi, Çanakkale Muharebeleri or Çanakkale Savaşı) was a military campaign in the First World War on the Gallipoli peninsula (now Gelibolu) from 19 February 1915 to 9 January 1916.

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Garrett Birkhoff

Garrett Birkhoff (January 19, 1911 – November 22, 1996) was an American mathematician.

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Harrie Massey

Sir Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey (16 May 1908 – 27 November 1983) was an Australian mathematical physicist who worked primarily in the fields of atomic and atmospheric physics. Ralph H. Fowler and Harrie Massey are Royal Medal winners.

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HMS Excellent (shore establishment)

HMS Excellent is a Royal Navy "stone frigate" (shore establishment) sited on Whale Island near Portsmouth in Hampshire.

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Homi J. Bhabha

Homi Jehangir Bhabha, FNI, FASc, FRS(30 October 1909 to 24 January 1966) was an Indian nuclear physicist who is widely credited as the "father of the Indian nuclear programme".

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Ice rules

In chemistry, ice rules are basic principles that govern arrangement of atoms in water ice.

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In vitro fertilisation

In vitro fertilisation (IVF) is a process of fertilisation where an egg is combined with sperm in vitro ("in glass").

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J. D. Bernal

John Desmond Bernal (10 May 1901 – 15 September 1971) was an Irish scientist who pioneered the use of X-ray crystallography in molecular biology. Ralph H. Fowler and J. D. Bernal are British physicists.

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John Lennard-Jones

Sir John Edward Lennard-Jones (27 October 1894 – 1 November 1954) was a British mathematician and professor of theoretical physics at the University of Bristol, and then of theoretical science at the University of Cambridge. Ralph H. Fowler and John Lennard-Jones are British physicists and John Humphrey Plummer Professors.

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List of people with surname Taylor

Taylor is an English occupational surname of Norman origin.

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Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim

LotharHis name is sometimes misspelled as Lother.

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Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England, which had a population of 552,000 at the 2021 census.

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Mary Fowler (geophysicist)

Christine Mary Rutherford Fowler, (born 1950) is a British geophysicist and academic.

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Mathematical Tripos

The Mathematical Tripos is the mathematics course that is taught in the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge.

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MAUD Committee

The MAUD Committee was a British scientific working group formed during the Second World War.

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Maurice Pryce

Maurice Henry Lecorney Pryce (24 January 1913 – 24 July 2003) was a British physicist.

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National Counties Cricket Championship

The NCCA 3 Day Championship (previously the Minor Counties Cricket Championship) is a season-long competition in England and Wales that is contested by the members of the National Counties Cricket Association (NCCA), the so-called national counties (previously called the minor counties) that do not have first-class status.

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Nevill Francis Mott

Sir Nevill Francis Mott (30 September 1905 – 8 August 1996) was a British physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1977 for his work on the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems, especially amorphous semiconductors. Ralph H. Fowler and Nevill Francis Mott are Royal Medal winners.

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Niels Bohr

Niels Henrik David Bohr (7 October 1885 – 18 November 1962) was a Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922.

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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Nobelpriset i fysiologi eller medicin) is awarded yearly by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute for outstanding discoveries in physiology or medicine.

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Noel Slater

Prof Noel Bryan Slater FRAS FRSE (1912–1973) was a 20th-century British mathematician and astronomer.

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Norfolk County Cricket Club

Norfolk County Cricket Club is one of twenty minor county cricket clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales.

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Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organizations, and public service outside the civil service.

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Paul Dirac

Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (8 August 1902 – 20 October 1984) was an English mathematical and theoretical physicist who is considered to be one of the founders of quantum mechanics. Ralph H. Fowler and Paul Dirac are Royal Medal winners.

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Physical chemistry

Physical chemistry is the study of macroscopic and microscopic phenomena in chemical systems in terms of the principles, practices, and concepts of physics such as motion, energy, force, time, thermodynamics, quantum chemistry, statistical mechanics, analytical dynamics and chemical equilibria.

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Physicist

A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe.

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Princeton University

Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey.

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Robert Edwards (physiologist)

Sir Robert Geoffrey Edwards (27 September 1925 – 10 April 2013) was a British physiologist and pioneer in reproductive medicine, and in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) in particular.

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Royal Marines

The Royal Marines, also known as the Royal Marines Commandos, and officially as the Corps of Royal Marines, are the United Kingdom's amphibious special operations capable commando force, one of the five fighting arms of the Royal Navy, and provide a company strength unit to the Special Forces Support Group (SFSG).

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Royal Medal

The Royal Medal, also known as The Queen's Medal and The King's Medal (depending on the gender of the monarch at the time of the award), is a silver-gilt medal, of which three are awarded each year by the Royal Society, two for "the most important contributions to the advancement of natural knowledge" and one for "distinguished contributions in the applied sciences", done within the Commonwealth of Nations.

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Royal Society

The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences.

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Roydon, Essex

Roydon is a village located in the Epping Forest district of the county of Essex, England.

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Ruth Fowler Edwards

Ruth Fowler Edwards, Lady Edwards (December 1930 – October 2013) was a British geneticist and the long-time wife and collaborator of Robert G. (Bob) Edwards, the "father" of in vitro fertilization.

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Sir

Sir is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages.

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Solvay Conference

The Solvay Conferences (Congrès Solvay) have been devoted to preeminent unsolved problems in both physics and chemistry.

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Somerset

Somerset (archaically Somersetshire) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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Statistical mechanics

In physics, statistical mechanics is a mathematical framework that applies statistical methods and probability theory to large assemblies of microscopic entities.

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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (19 October 1910 – 21 August 1995) was an Indian-American theoretical physicist who made significant contributions to the scientific knowledge about the structure of stars, stellar evolution and black holes. Ralph H. Fowler and Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar are Royal Medal winners.

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Thermodynamics

Thermodynamics is a branch of physics that deals with heat, work, and temperature, and their relation to energy, entropy, and the physical properties of matter and radiation.

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Thomas Cherry

Thomas Cherry (1873 – after 1898) was a Scottish professional footballer who played as a wing half.

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Trinity College, Cambridge

Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.

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Trumpington

Trumpington is a village to the south of Cambridge, in the Cambridge district, in the county of Cambridgeshire, England.

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UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee

The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (or UK-APC) is a United Kingdom government committee, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible for recommending names of geographical locations within the British Antarctic Territory (BAT) and the South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (SGSSI).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_H._Fowler

Also known as R. H. Fowler, R.H. Fowler, Ralph Fowler, Ralph Howard Fowler, Sir Ralph Fowler, Sir Ralph H. Fowler.

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