Ralph Howard Fowler

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July, 2006, Launch of Space Shuttle Discovery STS-121. See attached for full caption information.

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Mona Lisa, oil on wood panel by Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1503-06; in the Louvre, Paris, France. 77 x 53 cm.

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The Colosseum, Rome, Italy. Giant amphitheatre built in Rome under the Flavian emperors. (ancient architecture; architectural ruins)

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Artist interpretation of a Space meteoroid impact. Meteor impact. Asteroid, End of the world, danger, destruction, dinosaur extinct, Judgement Day, Planet Earth, Doomsday Predictions, comet

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Queen Elizabeth II addresses at opening of Parliament. (Date unknown on photo, but may be 1958, the first time the opening of Parliament was filmed.)

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African Americans demonstrating for voting rights in front of the White House as police and others watch, March 12, 1965. One sign reads, "We demand the right to vote everywhere." Voting Rights Act, civil rights.

Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement

Ahura Mazda - relief of the Zoroastrian god Ahura Mazda at the ancient ruins of Persepolis in Iran. Also known as Ormazd Zoroastrianism,

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Ralph Howard Fowler

British mathematician

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association with Bethe

In Hans Bethe: Education
…Cambridge under the aegis of Ralph Fowler and a semester at the University of Rome working with Enrico Fermi.
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photoemission equation

In photoelectric effect: Discovery and early work
In 1931 the British mathematician Ralph Howard Fowler extended the understanding of photoelectric emission by establishing the relationship between photoelectric current and temperature in metals. Further efforts showed that electromagnetic radiation could also emit electrons in insulators, which do not conduct electricity, and in semiconductors, a variety of insulators that…
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