Thomas George Cowling - Definition and Overview

Thomas George Cowling (June 17 1906 – June 16 1990) was a British astronomer.

He did early work on stellar structure and collaborated with Ludwig Biermann. He also studied magnetic fields within stars.

He won the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1956 and the Bruce Medal in 1985. He was also awarded the Hughes Medal two days before his death.

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External links

Bruce Medal page (http://www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/BruceMedalists/Cowling/index.html)
Awarding of RAS gold medal (http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/MNRAS/0116//0000229.000.html)
Autobiographical article (http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/ARA+A/0023//0000001.000.html)

QJRAS 32 (1991) 201 (http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/QJRAS/0032//0000201.000.html)

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