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  1. 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 [1 ...

  2. My parents had two other children, my younger brother, Arthur Watson Fowler and my still younger sister, Nelda Fowler Wood. My paternal grandfather, William Fowler, was a coal miner in Slammannan, near Falkirk, Scotland who emigrated to Pittsburgh to find work as a coal miner around 1880. My maternal grandfather, Alfred Watson, was a grocer.

  3. Jun 11, 2018 · Fowler, William Alfred. ( b. 9 August 1911 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; d. 14 March 1995 in Pasadena, California), physicist and educator who was foremost in creating the field known as nuclear astrophysics and whose studies of nuclear reactions in stars won a Nobel Prize in 1983. Fowler was the eldest of three children of John Macleod Fowler ...

  4. nucleosynthesis. William Fowler (born August 9, 1911, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died March 14, 1995, Pasadena, California) was an American nuclear astrophysicist who, with Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1983 for his role in formulating a widely accepted theory of element generation.

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  5. Mar 16, 1995 · William Alfred Fowler was born in Pittsburgh on Aug. 9, 1911, and grew up in Lima, Ohio. He received a bachelor of science degree from Ohio State University in 1933 and earned a doctorate in ...

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  7. Sep 29, 2023 · Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar and William Alfred Fowler shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1983, for their work on stellar evolution. Although they were born just months apart, and died in the same ...

  8. Mar 8, 2016 · Biography. Fowler was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, graduated in 1933 from Ohio State University, and obtained his PhD in 1936 from the California Institute of Technology. He was immediately appointed to the staff, serving as professor of physics there from 1946 to 1970; he was Institute Professor from 1970 and professor emeritus from 1982.

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