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2 unusual facts about Ralph H. Kress


Haulpak

Wabco recognised the importance of the off-highway Truck market and hired Ralph H. Kress to design a line of haul trucks in-house.

Ralph Kress

Ralph H. Kress (1904–1995), American engineer responsible for off-road construction and mining trucks


Chandrasekhar limit

In 1926, the British physicist Ralph H. Fowler observed that the relationship among the density, energy and temperature of white dwarfs could be explained by viewing them as a gas of nonrelativistic, non-interacting electrons and nuclei which obeyed Fermi-Dirac statistics.

Christy Anderson

1992-3 Samuel H. Kress Two-Year Fellowship in the History of Art at a Foreign Institution, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London

Ralph H. Spanjer

During his tenure, he oversaw a $5 million renovation, the merger of the Academy with Northwestern Military and Naval Academy in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin and organized a visit by former U.S. President George H. W. Bush.

Ruth Fowler Edwards

Fowler was the daughter of physicist Sir Ralph Fowler, FRS (1889–1944) and Eileen Mary Rutherford, herself the only daughter of the celebrated physicist Lord Ernest Rutherford, FRS (1871–1937, the 1908 Nobel laureate in Chemistry "for his investigations into the disintegration of elements, and the chemistry of radioactive substances").

S-1 Uranium Committee

Ralph H. Fowler was also asked to send the progress reports to Lyman Briggs.

Saha ionization equation

In the early twenties Ralph H. Fowler (in collaboration with Charles Galton Darwin) developed a very powerful method in statistical mechanics permitting a systematic exposition and working out of the equilibrium properties of matter.

Thermionic emission

In the period 1911 to 1930, as physical understanding of the behaviour of electrons in metals increased, various different theoretical expressions (based on different physical assumptions) were put forwards for AG, by Richardson, Saul Dushman, Ralph H. Fowler, Arnold Sommerfeld and Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim.


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