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{{Infobox scientist

| honorific_prefix = [[Sir]]

| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|size=100%|OBE|FRS}}

| name = Ralph Howard Fowler

| image = Ralph H. Fowler.jpg

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| caption =

| birth_date = {{birth date|1889|1|17|df=y}}

| birth_place = Fedsden, [[Roydon, Essex|Roydon]], [[Essex]], England

| death_date = {{death date and age|1944|7|28|1889|1|17|df=y}}

| death_place = [[Trumpington]], [[Cambridgeshire]], England

| field = [[Statistical physics]]▼

| work_institution = [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge University]]▼

| alma_mater = [[Trinity College, Cambridge]]

| known_for = {{ubl|[[Field electron emission#Fowler–Nordheim-type equations]]<br>[[tunneling|Fowler–Nordheim tunneling]]<br>|[[Darwin-FowlerDarwin–Fowler method]]<br>|[[Ice rules|Bernal–Fowler rules]]<br>[[Field electron emission]]<br>|[[Degenerate matter|Degenerate stars]]<br>|[[Zeroth law of thermodynamics]]}}▼

| academic_advisors = [[Archibald Vivian Hill]] [[File:Nobel_prize_medal.svg|20px]]▼

| spouse = {{marriage|Eileen Mary Rutherford|1921}}

| doctoral_students = [[Garrett Birkhoff]]<br>[[Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar|S. Chandrasekhar]] [[File:Nobel_prize_medal.svg|20px]]<br>[[Paul Dirac]] [[File:Nobel_prize_medal.svg|20px]]<br> [[Wang Zhuxi]]<br>[[Homi J. Bhabha]]<br>[[Douglas Rayner Hartree]]<br>[[John Lennard-Jones]]<br>[[Harrie Massey]]<br>[[William McCrea (astronomer)|William McCrea]]<br>[[Nevill Francis Mott]] [[File:Nobel_prize_medal.svg|20px]]<br>[[Maurice Pryce]]<br>[[Daulat Singh Kothari]]<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Panchapakesan |first=N. |date=July 1994 |title=DS Kothari and Delhi University |url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/N-Panchapakesan/publication/276326833_Professor_DS_Kothari_and_the_University_of_Delhi/links/5ae4232e458515760abe8c98/Professor-DS-Kothari-and-the-University-of-Delhi.pdf |journal=Defence Science Journal |volume=44 |issue=3 |pages=199–202}}</ref><br>[[Bertha Swirles]]<!--<br>[[F. Powell]]<br>[[Noel Slater]]<br>[[A. Stevenson]]<br>[[H. Taylor]]<br>[[Thomas Cherry]]-->▼

| children = 4, including [[Ruth Fowler Edwards|Ruth]]

▲| known_for = [[Fowler–Nordheim-type equations]]<br>[[Fowler–Nordheim tunneling]]<br>[[Darwin-Fowler method]]<br>[[Bernal–Fowler rules]]<br>[[Field electron emission]]<br>[[Degenerate matter|Degenerate stars]]<br>[[Zeroth law of thermodynamics]]

| relatives = {{ubl|[[Ernest Rutherford]] (father-in-law)|[[Robert Edwards (physiologist)|Robert Edwards]] (son-in-law)|[[Mary Fowler (geophysicist)|Mary Fowler]] (granddaughter)}}

| prizesawards = {{ubl|[[Smith's Prize#Rayleigh Prize <small>recipients|Rayleigh Prize]] (1913)</small><br>|[[Adams Prize]] {{small|(1924)}}<br>|[[RoyalList Medal]]of {{small|(1936)}}<br>[[Fellowfellows of the Royal Society elected in 1925|FRS (1925)]]<ref name="frs">{{Cite journal | last1 = Milne | first1 = E. A. | author-link = Edward Arthur Milne| title = Ralph Howard Fowler. 1889–1944 | doi = 10.1098/rsbm.1945.0005 | journal = [[Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society]] | volume = 5 | issue = 14 | pages = 60–78 | year = 1945 | s2cid = 170967451 }}</ref>|[[Royal Medal]] (1936)}}

| footnotes =

▲| field fields = [[Statistical physics]]

▲| work_institution work_institutions = [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge University]]

▲| academic_advisors = [[Archibald Vivian Hill]] [[File:Nobel_prize_medal.svg|20px]]

▲| doctoral_students = {{ubl|[[Homi J. Bhabha]]|[[Garrett Birkhoff]]<br>|[[Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar|S. Chandrasekhar]] [[File:Nobel_prize_medal.svg|20px]]<br>[[Paul Dirac]] [[File:Nobel_prize_medal.svg|20px]]<br> [[Wang Zhuxi]]<br>[[Homi J. Bhabha]]<br>[[Douglas Rayner Hartree]]<br>|[[John Lennard-Jones]]<br>[[Harrie Massey]]<br>[[William McCrea (astronomer)|William McCrea]]<br>[[Nevill Francis Mott]] [[File:Nobel_prize_medal.svg|20px]]<br>[[Maurice Pryce]]<br>[[Daulat Singh Kothari]]<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Panchapakesan |first=N. |date=July 1994 |title=DS Kothari and Delhi University |url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/N-Panchapakesan/publication/276326833_Professor_DS_Kothari_and_the_University_of_Delhi/links/5ae4232e458515760abe8c98/Professor-DS-Kothari-and-the-University-of-Delhi.pdf |journal=Defence Science Journal |volume=44 |issue=3 |pages=199–202}}</ref><br>|[[BerthaHarrie SwirlesMassey]]<!--<br>|[[F.William PowellMcCrea (astronomer)|William McCrea]]<br>|[[NoelNevill SlaterFrancis Mott]]<br>|[[A.Maurice StevensonPryce]]<br>|[[H.Bertha TaylorSwirles]]<br>|[[ThomasWang CherryZhuxi]]-->}}

}}

'''Sir Ralph Howard Fowler''' {{postnominalspost-nominals|OBE|FRS}}<ref name="frs"/> (17 January 1889 – 28 July 1944) was aan BritishEnglish [[physicist]], [[astronomer]] and [[Physical chemistry|physical chemist]].

==Education==