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Fowler, William Alfred

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BornPittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, 9 August 1911

DiedPasadena, California, USA, 14 March 1995

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Fowler, William Alfred. Courtesy of Caltech (Fowler holding the National Medal of Science)

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  • Barnes, C. A., D. D. Clayton, and D. N. Schramm (eds.) (1982). Essays in Nuclear Astrophysics:Presented to William A. Fowler, on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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  • Burbidge, E. Margaret, G. R. Burbidge, William A. Fowler, and F. Hoyle (1957). “Synthesis of the Elements in Stars.” Reviews of Modern Physics 29: 547–650.

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  • Clayton, Donald D. (1996). “William Alfred Fowler (1911–1995).” Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 108: 1–7.

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  • Fowler, William A. (1984). “Experimental and Theoretical Nuclear Astrophysics: The Quest for the Origin of the Elements.” Reviews of Modern Physics 56: 149–179. (Fowler’s Nobel lecture.)

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  • Zund, Joseph D. (1999). “Fowler, William Alfred. ” In American National Biography, edited by John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes. Vol. 8, pp. 331–333. New York: Oxford University Press.

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  1. Physics-Astronomy Department, Clemson University, Clemson, USA

    Donald D. Clayton

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  1. Department of Earth Science, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA, USA

    Thomas Hockey

  2. University of California, Irvine School of Physical Sciences, Irvine, CA, USA

    Virginia Trimble

  3. Rice University, Houston, TX, USA

    Thomas R. Williams

  4. Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA, USA

    Katherine Bracher

  5. York Univesity, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Richard A. Jarrell

  6. University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA

    Jordan D. Marché II

  7. University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA

    JoAnn Palmeri

  8. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Daniel W. E. Green

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Clayton, D.D. (2014). Fowler, William Alfred. In: Hockey, T., et al. Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9917-7_474

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