About Roger Cowley
Lived 1939 – 2015 (aged 75). Roger Cowley was a British physicist and university teacher.
Roger Arthur Cowley, FRS,
He married Sheila Joyce Wells, a teacher of mathematics, on 4 April 1964 and they had two children. On 27 January 2015 Cowley died at a care home in Oxford as a result of a head injury sustained in a bicycle accident a year earlier. Cowley made his name in the field of neutron scattering. This work led to the study of phase transitions. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1978 and awarded the Fernand Holweck Medal and Prize in 1990. In 2003 he received the Walter Hälg Prize from the European Neutron Scattering Association and the Faraday Medal and Prize from the Institute of Physics in 2008.
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Who was Roger Cowley?
English physicist
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Roger Cowley was born on 24 February 1939 in United Kingdom.
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Roger Cowley died on 27 January 2015.
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Roger Cowley was a physicist and university teacher.
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Roger Cowley was British.
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