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Alfred Fowler ( March 22 1868 – June 24 1940) was a British astronomer. Not to be confused with the American William Alfred Fowler, who lived later.

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 won the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1915, and the Henry Draper Medal in 1920. He won the Bruce Medal in 1934.

A crater on the MoonFor other moons in the solar system see natural satellite. For other uses see Moon (disambiguation). The Moon is the only natural satellite of Earth. It has no formal name other than "The Moon" although it is occasionally called Luna ( Latin for moon to d is jointly named after him and Ralph H. FowlerRalph Howard Fowler ( January 17 1889 July 28 1944) was a British physicist and astronomer. At Cambridge University, he supervised the doctoral studies of both John Lennard-Jones and Paul Dirac. External link http://www-gap. uk/~history/Mathematicians/Fow.

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