Born: 1911-08-09 in Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Gender: male
Field: American nuclear physicist (1911–1995)
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.
Awarded on: 1983-10-19
"for his theoretical and experimental studies of the nuclear reactions of importance in the formation of the chemical elements in the universe"
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