William Alfred Fowler Scientist

William Alfred "Willie" Fowler (/ˈfaʊlər/; August 9, 1911 – March 14, 1995) was an American nuclear physicist, later astrophysicist, who, with Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar won the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics; (he is not to be confused with the British astronomer Alfred Fowler).

Personal facts

Birth dateAugust 09, 1911
Birth place
Pennsylvania , Pittsburgh
Date of deathMarch 14, 1995
Place of death
California , Pasadena California

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Scientist

awards
Nobel Prize in Physics
Vetlesen Prize
doctoral advisor
doctoral student
J. Richard Bond
Donald D. Clayton
George M. Fuller
influenced by

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External resources

  1. http://etd.caltech.edu/etd/available/etd-10112002-114537
  2. http://oralhistories.library.caltech.edu/94
  3. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE5D71E38F935A25750C0A963958260
  4. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40680678
  5. http://www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/1983/fowler-autobio.html
  6. http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt2d5nb7kj
  7. http://www.osti.gov/accomplishments/fowler.html
  8. http://www.osti.gov/cgi-bin/rd_accomplishments/display_biblio.cgi?id=ACC0134&numPages=11&fp=N
  9. http://www.phy.ornl.gov/astrophysics/data/cf88/index.html
  10. http://www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/brucemedalists/FowlerW/index.html