Credit: ©Godfrey Argent Studio
    Image number: RS.19770

    Portrait of Ralph Howard Fowler

    Date
    mid 20th century
    Sitter
    Ralph Howard Fowler (1889 - 1944, British) , Physicist
    Creator - Organisation
    J. Russell & Sons, Photographer
    Object type
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    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 140mm
    width (print): 100mm
    Subject
    Description
    Half-length portrait of Ralph Howard Fowler, turned to the right as viewed with his arms crossed, looking right of the camera. He is dressed in a grey suit jacket and tie over a white shirt.

    Handwritten verso inscription: ‘Ralph Howard Fowler FRS 13639A'

    Sir Ralph Howard Fowler (1889-1944), British mathematical physicist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1925. He was awarded the Royal Medal in 1936 for ‘his work on statistical mechanics and allied departments of modern mathematical physics’.
    Associated place
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