William Alfred Fowler
William Alfred Fowler | |
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| Born | August 9, 1911 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US |
| Died | March 14, 1995 (aged 83) |
| Alma mater | Ohio State University Caltech (PhD) |
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| Doctoral advisor | Charles Christian Lauritsen |
| Doctoral students | James M. Bardeen, J. Richard Bond, Donald Clayton, George M. Fuller, F. Curtis Michel, Arthur B. McDonald |
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.