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Mary Fowler (astronomer)
Mary Fowler may refer to: * Mary Blackford Fowler (1892–1982), American painter and sculptor * Mary Fowler (geologist) Christine Mary Rutherford Fowler, (born 1950) is a British geologist and academic. From 2012 to 2020, she served as the Master of Darwin College, Cambridge. She was previously a lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London, rising to becom ... (born 1950), British geologist and academic * Mary Fowler (soccer) (born 2003), Australian soccer player {{hndis, Fowler, Mary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Blackford Fowler
Mary Zay Blackford Fowler (1892–1982) was an American painter and sculptor. Born in Findlay, Ohio, Fowler was an alumna of Oberlin College; after graduation she moved to Washington, D.C., where she took lessons under Carl Mose, Hans Schuler, and J. Maxwell Miller at the Corcoran School of Art. Long active as an artist in Washington, between 1940 and 1947 she was commissioned to produce a bust of Frederick Gillett. In 1943 she crafted three reliefs, ''Captain Newport Brings News and Aid to the Starving Colonists'', ''Early Industries'', and ''Present Day Industries'', in unglazed terra cotta for the Works Progress Administration for placement in the United States federal building in Newport News, Virginia. Fowler was married to noted classicist Harold North Fowler, and during their tenure in Washington they were prominent members of local society. When Jacqueline Kennedy Jacqueline Lee Kennedy Onassis ( ; July 28, 1929 – May 19, 1994) was an American socialite, writ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Fowler (geologist)
Christine Mary Rutherford Fowler, (born 1950) is a British geologist and academic. From 2012 to 2020, she served as the Master of Darwin College, Cambridge. She was previously a lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London, rising to become Dean of its Faculty of Science. Early life and education Fowler was born in 1950 to Rosemary and Peter Fowler. She comes from a family of eminent scientists. A great-grandfather was Ernest Rutherford, the 'father of nuclear physics', and her grandfather, Rutherford's son-in-law, was the mathematical physicist Ralph H. Fowler. She studied mathematics at Girton College, Cambridge, graduating with a first class Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1972. In 1972 she joined Darwin College, Cambridge to undertake post-graduate studies in geophysics and completed her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 1976. Her doctoral thesis was titled "Seismic Studies of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge". Academic career From 1977 to 1978, Fowler was a Royal Societ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |