Edwin Ernest Salpeter (3 December 1924 – 26 November 2008,) was an Austrian–Australian–American astrophysicist. Born in Vienna to a Jewish family, Salpeter...
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derived by Hans Bethe and Edwin Salpeter Salpeter process, a process of nuclear fusion mathematically defined by Edwin Salpeter Salpeter initial mass function...
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The Bethe–Salpeter equation (BSE, named after Hans Bethe and Edwin Salpeter) is an integral equation, the solution of which describes the structure of...
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Triple-alpha process (redirect from Salpeter process)
and Edwin Salpeter had calculated the reaction rate for 8Be, 12C, and 16O nucleosynthesis taking this resonance into account. However, Salpeter calculated...
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falling into a supermassive black hole, was only suggested in 1964 by Edwin E. Salpeter and Yakov Zeldovich, and even then it was rejected by many astronomers...
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has formed an event horizon 1964 — Yakov Zel’dovich and independently Edwin Salpeter propose that accretion discs around supermassive black holes are responsible...
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Initial mass function (redirect from Salpeter Function)
Kroupa (2001) broken power law and the Chabrier (2003) log-normal. Edwin E. Salpeter is the first astrophysicist who attempted to quantify IMF by applying...
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black hole was suggested as the source of quasars' power in papers by Edwin Salpeter and Yakov Zeldovich in 1964. In 1969 Donald Lynden-Bell proposed that...
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astrophysics and physical cosmology. In 1964, he and independently Edwin Salpeter were the first to suggest that accretion discs around massive black...
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Schwarzschild) Crafoord Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, with Edwin Salpeter (1997) Named after him Hoyle Building, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge...
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Academy of Sciences later made partial amends by awarding Hoyle, with Edwin Salpeter, its 1997 Crafoord Prize". The 1978 prize was awarded for the chance...
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Mayor of Vienna (1984–1994), heart failure (b. 1927). November 26 – Edwin Ernest Salpeter, 83, Austrian-born American astrophysicist, leukemia (b. 1924)....
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Miriam (Mika) Salpeter (née Mark; April 8, 1929 – October 24, 2000) was an American academic. As professor of neurobiology at Cornell University, she developed...
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about extraterrestrial forms of life. Astrophysicists Carl Sagan and Edwin Salpeter speculated that a "hunters, floaters and sinkers" ecosystem could populate...
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Feynman Prize (2001) Scientific career Fields Planetary Science Earth Science Astrophysics Geophysics Institutions Caltech Doctoral advisor Edwin Salpeter...
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Telescope in the ACT. School of Physics alumnus and Crafoord Laureate Edwin Salpeter discovered the form of the initial mass function of stars, the importance...
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Greenstein 1971 Fred Hoyle 1972 Allan Sandage 1973 Leo Goldberg 1974 Edwin Salpeter 1975 George Herbig 1976 Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin 1977 Olin C. Wilson...
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Thermonuclear Reaction Involving Medium Light Nuclei (1960) Doctoral advisor Edwin Salpeter Doctoral students Jean Audouze Sylvie Vauclair Website www.hubertreeves...
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giant stars. However, this achievement is often overlooked because Edwin Salpeter's paper on the same subject had already been published by the time Öpik's...
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van der Riet Woolley Frank Press 1972 Fritz Zwicky Hal Thirlaway 1973 Edwin Salpeter Francis Birch 1974 Ludwig Biermann Keith Bullen 1975 Jesse Greenstein...
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first to obtain a patent in 1855. The Bethe–Salpeter equation (named after Hans Bethe and Edwin Salpeter), which describes the bound states of a two-body...
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Norman F. Ramsey 1991: Herbert A. Hauptman 1992: Wolfgang Paul 1996: Edwin Salpeter 2002: Heinrich Hora 2003: Edward Shuryak [de] 2004: Iosif Khriplovich...
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education, outreach, accessibility, equity, inclusion and diversity. Edwin Ernest Salpeter, astrophysicist, recipient of the 1997 Crafoord Prize in Astronomy...
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2017 Dannie Heineman Prize. His invited lectureships include the 2000 Edwin Salpeter Lecture at Cornell, and the 2004 Biermann Lecture at the Max-Planck...
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Abdus Salam 1972 – Robert Serber 1973 – Steven Weinberg 1974 – Edwin Ernest Salpeter 1975 – Nicholas Kemmer 1976 – Yoichiro Nambu 1977 – Feza Gursey...
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the rate of pycnonuclear fusion in one-component plasma (OCP) were Edwin Salpeter and David Van-Horn, with their article published in 1969. Their approach...
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115, American supercentenarian, oldest validated living person. Edwin Ernest Salpeter, 83, Austrian-born American astrophysicist, leukemia. De'Angelo...
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runner Matthew Birir Amos Biwott Mike Boit Richard Chelimo Lonah Chemtai Salpeter, Kenyan-Israeli Olympic marathon runner Joyce Chepchumba Jason Dunford...
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German captain Gerrard Honrik for the manual "Instructions for making salpeter to growe" (the secret of the "Feuerwerkbuch" -the nitraries-). In 1783...
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C. Wilson 1985 – Thomas G. Cowling 1986 – Fred L. Whipple 1987 – Edwin E. Salpeter 1988 – John G. Bolton 1989 – Adriaan Blaauw 1990 – Charlotte E. Moore...
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