| RefNo | EC/1947/06 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XV, 154; A01605 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Cowling, Thomas George: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Description | Citation typed |
| Citation | Distinguished for his critical and constructive contributions to difficult problems of mathematical astronomy, gas-theory, ionospheric physics and geomagnetism. His principal astronomical papers deal with the stability of stellar models, the point source model of a star, convective equilibrium in stellar interiors, and the internal density- distributions of stars as deduced from the motion of the apsidal line in close binaries. He is joint author with S. Chapman of The Mathematical Theory of Non-Uniform Gases (underlined). In this field his most important work has been on the difficult problem of the electrical conductivity of an ionised gas in a transverse magnetic field. |
| Proposers | From Personal Knowledge. Sydney Chapman; Edward Arthur Milne; Edward V Appleton; J H Jeans; E T Whittaker; D Brunt; L J Mordell; H H Plaskett; H Spencer Jones; W M H Greaves; G Temple; E C Bullard; G M B Dobson |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA601 | Cowling; Thomas George (1906 - 1990) | 1906 - 1990 |