William Alfred Fowler
- There is another William Fowler who was a Scottish poet and uncle of William Drummond of Hawthornden
William Alfred Fowler (
August 9,
1911 -
March 14,
1995) was an
American physicist. He received the
Nobel Prize for Physics in
1983 for his theoretical and experimental studies of the nuclear reactions of importance in the formation of the chemical elements in the universe.
He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and died in Pasadena, California.
Not to be confused with Alfred Fowler.
Won the Bruce Medal in 1979.
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