[1] Fowler was educated at Summer Fields School, Winchester College, and under Cecil Powell at the University of Bristol.
He studied radioactive fallout from the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power station explosion in Ukraine, and after the 1988 Lockerbie aircraft bombing he developed a thermal neutron-based methodology for screening passengers' luggage.
that Goering demanded a court martial over what the Axis powers viewed as a breach of security as they did not believe that it was possible to locate a jamming station so rapidly.
[citation needed] Fowler won the 1974 Hughes Medal of the Royal Society "for his outstanding contributions to cosmic ray and elementary particle physics".
His father was the physicist Sir Ralph Howard Fowler, who determined the state of matter in white dwarf stars.