William Alfred Fowler (August 9, 1911 – March 14, 1995) was an American nuclear physicist, later astrophysicist, who, with Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar...
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Alfred Fowler, CBE FRS (22 March 1868, in Yorkshire – 24 June 1940) was an English astronomer and spectroscopist. He was born in Wilsden on the outskirts...
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elements heavier than iron, by Margaret and Geoffrey Burbidge, William Alfred Fowler and Fred Hoyle in their famous 1957 B2FH paper, which became one of...
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British Islands William Alfred Fowler (1911–1995), American astrophysicist who studied nuclear reactions in stars William Hope Fowler (1876–1933), Scottish...
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Noah Webster Alfred Fowler (1868–1940), English astronomer Bertha Fowler (1866–1952), American educator, preacher, deaconess Beryl Fowler (1881–1963),...
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Royal College of Science at Imperial College London. Working under Alfred Fowler, he studied the Zeeman effect and the spectra of palladium, copper,...
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boron. In their 1957 paper Synthesis of the Elements in Stars, William Alfred Fowler, Margaret Burbidge, Geoffrey Burbidge, and Fred Hoyle explained how...
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experimental and theoretical physicists who met in Cambridge: William Alfred Fowler, Margaret Burbidge, and Geoffrey Burbidge. This group systematized basic...
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Baltimore Robert Christy Lee Alvin DuBridge Richard Feynman William Alfred Fowler Scott Fraser Jesse L. Greenstein Charles Christian Lauritsen Maarten...
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will of Alfred Nobel, which dictates that the awards should be administered by the Nobel Foundation. An additional prize in memory of Alfred Nobel was...
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Pickering series (redirect from Pickering-Fowler series)
Wolf–Rayet stars. The name comes from Edward Charles Pickering and Alfred Fowler. The lines are produced by transitions from a higher energy level of...
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produce carbon as well as any heavier element. Nuclear physicist William Alfred Fowler had noted the beryllium-8 resonance, and Edwin Salpeter had calculated...
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B2FH paper (redirect from Burbidge, Burbidge, Fowler and Hoyle)
incomplete review of the B2FH draft. The Caltech nuclear physicist William Alfred Fowler used his sabbatical leave to visit Hoyle in Cambridge from 1954 to 1955...
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importance to the structure and evolution of the stars" with William Alfred Fowler. The core of a star is kept from collapsing by the heat generated by...
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new form of hydrogen with half-integer transition levels. In 1912, Alfred Fowler managed to produce similar lines from a hydrogen-helium mixture, and...
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lines that did not fit Balmer's formula. When challenged on this by Alfred Fowler, Bohr replied that they were caused by ionised helium, helium atoms...
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Wilhelm Julius Foerster (Germany, 1832–1921) Alfred Fowler (United Kingdom, 1868–1940) William Alfred Fowler (United States, 1911–1995) Philip Fox (United...
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physics. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the 1895 will of Alfred Nobel (who died in 1896), awarded for outstanding contributions in physics...
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Fowler is a large lunar impact crater that lies in the northern hemisphere on the Moon's far side. It lies to the south-southwest of the crater Esnault-Pelterie...
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Reines Experimentally proved the existence of the neutrino. 1957 William Alfred Fowler, Margaret Burbidge, Geoffrey Burbidge, and Fred Hoyle In their 1957...
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Werner Forssmann Physiology or Medicine 1956 University of Mainz William Alfred Fowler Physics 1983 California Institute of Technology James Franck Physics...
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Institute of Technology under the direction of Richard Feynman and William Alfred Fowler. Bardeen was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy in 1965. Bardeen first worked...
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μe, equal to 2.5, giving a limit of 0.91 M☉.) Together with William Alfred Fowler, Chandrasekhar received the Nobel Prize for this and other work in 1983...
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Seitz, Robert R. Wilson 1974—Nicolaas Bloembergen, Paul Flory, William Alfred Fowler, Linus Pauling, Kenneth Pitzer 1975—Hans Bethe, Joseph O. Hirschfelder...
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(1819–1868) Joseph Fourier – France (1768–1830) Ralph H. Fowler – U.K. (1889–1944) William Alfred Fowler – United States (1911–1995) Nobel laureate James Franck...
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and her husband Geoffrey Burbidge were invited to work with William Alfred Fowler and Fred Hoyle at the University of Cambridge. The team combined data...
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World War II flying ace, test pilot, and Blue Angels lead solo William Alfred Fowler – recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics Gloria Foy – dancer, singer...
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Enrico Fermi (1946) Alexander Fleming Howard Florey (1948) William Alfred Fowler (2 February 1948) Edwin Broun Fred (1945) William F. Friedman (1946)...
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de Sitter 1932 – John S. Plaskett 1933 – Carl V.L. Charlier 1934 – Alfred Fowler 1935 – Vesto M. Slipher 1936 – Armin O. Leuschner 1937 – Ejnar Hertzsprung...
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Chandrasekhar received the Nobel Prize in Physics, alongside William Alfred Fowler, for their "theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance...
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