Thomas George Cowling FRS was an English astronomer.
16 Facts About Thomas Cowling
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Thomas Cowling was educated at Sir George Monoux Grammar School in Walthamstow and read mathematics at Brasenose College, Oxford from 1924 to 1930.
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Thomas Cowling found an error in the paper that invalidated Chapman's results.
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In 1933 Thomas Cowling wrote an article, The magnetic field of sunspots.
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Thomas Cowling's article assured him of a good reputation in the field of astrophysics.
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Thomas Cowling constructed a model of star with a convective core and radiative envelope, named the Cowling model by Chandrasekhar.
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Thomas Cowling studied magnetic fields within stars and classified the modes of non-radial oscillation of the body of a star, the basis of the field of helioseismology.
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Thomas Cowling became an Assistant Lecturer at the University College of Swansea in 1933.
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Thomas Cowling was a lecturer at the University of Dundee and at the University of Manchester before being appointed professor of mathematics at the University College of North Wales.
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In 1948 Thomas Cowling was appointed professor of applied mathematics at the University of Leeds in succession to Professor Selig Brodetsky.
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Thomas Cowling retired from his chair at Leeds in 1970 with the title emeritus professor.
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Thomas Cowling was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in March 1947.
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Thomas Cowling won the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1956 and the Bruce Medal of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific in 1985.
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Thomas Cowling was elected president of the Royal Astronomical Society from 1965 to 1967.
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Thomas Cowling was awarded the Hughes Medal two days before his death.
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Thomas Cowling died in Leeds on 16 June 1990, one day before his 84th birthday.