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William Alfred Fowler
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William Alfred Fowler

1911 – 1995 · aged 84

American nuclear physicist (1911-1995)

Born
9 Aug 1911 · Pittsburgh
Died
14 Mar 1995 · Pasadena

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 97 years
  1. 9 Aug 1911BornBorn in Pittsburgh
  2. 1954AwardGuggenheim Fellowship
  3. 1961AwardGuggenheim Fellowship
  4. 1961AwardRichtmyer Memorial Lecture Award
  5. 1963AwardHenry Norris Russell Lectureship
  6. 1970AwardTom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics
  7. 1973AwardVetlesen Prize
  8. 1974AwardNational Medal of Science
  9. 1978AwardEddington Medal
  10. 1979AwardBruce Medal
  11. 1982AwardHonorary doctorate of Paris Observatory, PSL University
  12. 1983AwardNobel Prize in Physics
  13. 1988AwardKarl G. Jansky Lectureship
  14. 14 Mar 1995DiedDied in Pasadena

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1911 – 1995).

  1. 1914 – 1918World War I
  2. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  3. 1917Balfour Declaration
  4. 1917February Revolution
  5. 1917October Revolution
  6. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  7. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  8. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  9. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  10. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  11. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  12. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  13. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  14. 1938Munich Agreement
  15. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  16. 1939 – 1945World War II
  17. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  18. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  19. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  20. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  21. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  22. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  23. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  24. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  25. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  26. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  27. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  29. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  30. 1956Suez Crisis
  31. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  32. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  33. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  34. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  35. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  36. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  37. 1968Prague Spring
  38. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  39. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  40. 19741974 FIFA World Cup

Biography

William Alfred Fowler (August 9, 1911 – March 14, 1995) was an American astrophysicist. He shared the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his theoretical and experimental studies of the nuclear reactions of importance in the formation of the chemical elements in the universe." He is known for his theoretical and experimental research into nuclear reactions within stars and the energy elements produced in the process. With Margaret and Geoffrey Burbidge and Fred Hoyle, he authored the influential B2FH paper, Synthesis of the Elements in Stars.

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