William Alfred Fowler
1911
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1995
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: United States of America
languages spoken, written or signed: English
educated at: California Institute of Technology, Ohio State University
occupation: astronomer, physicist, university teacher, nuclear physicist, astrophysicist
William Alfred Fowler (August 9, 1911 – March 14, 1995) was an American nuclear physicist, later astrophysicist, who, with Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics. He is known for his theoretical and experimental research into nuclear reactions within stars and the energy elements produced in the process and was one of the authors of the influential B2FH paper. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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