William Alfred Fowler, Ph.D.

Affiliations:

1936-1982

California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA

Area:

Nuclear Physics, nuclear astrophysics

Parents

J. Robert Oppenheimer	research assistant	1936	Caltech (Physics Tree)
(https://oralhistories.library.caltech.edu/94/1/OH_Fowler_W.pdf)
Fritz Zwicky	research assistant	1933-1936	Caltech
(https://oralhistories.library.caltech.edu/94/1/OH_Fowler_W.pdf)
Charles Christian Lauritsen	grad student	1936	Caltech (Physics Tree)
(Radioactive elements of a low atomic number)

Children

William Burdette McLean	grad student	1939	Caltech (Physics Tree)
William Frank Hornyak	grad student	1949	Caltech (Physics Tree)
Alvin V. Tollestrup	grad student	1950	Caltech (Physics Tree)
Theodore S. Webb	grad student	1955	Caltech (Physics Tree)
Forrest S. Mozer	grad student	1951-1956	Caltech
Donald D. Clayton	grad student	1957-1962	Caltech (Physics Tree)
Michael J Levine	grad student	1963	Caltech (Physics Tree)
John Davie Pearson	grad student	1963	Caltech (Physics Tree)
James M. Bardeen	grad student	1965	Caltech (Physics Tree)
James Daniel Larson	grad student	1965	Caltech (Physics Tree)
Cary N. Davids	grad student	1967	Caltech (Physics Tree)
Neta A. Bahcall	grad student	1970	Tel Aviv University (Physics Tree)
James Waldo Toevs	grad student	1970	Caltech (Physics Tree)
David N. Schramm	grad student	1971	Caltech (Physics Tree)
J. Richard ("dick") Bond	grad student	1979	Caltech (Physics Tree)
George Michael Fuller	grad student	1981	Caltech (Physics Tree)
J Robert Buchler	post-doc		Caltech
Sverre Aarseth	post-doc	1965-	Caltech (Physics Tree)
Georgeanne Robertson Caughlan	post-doc	1961-1963	Caltech
Thomas Anthony Tombrello	post-doc	1961-1963	Caltech (Physics Tree)
John Norris Bahcall	post-doc	1962-1963	Caltech
Robert V. Wagoner	post-doc	1965-1968	Caltech
W. David Arnett	post-doc	1967-1969	Caltech
Robert Thomas Rood	post-doc	1971-1973	Caltech
Klaus Joachim Fricke	post-doc	1972-1973	Caltech
Edward William Kolb	post-doc	1978-1980	Caltech (Physics Tree)
Geoffrey Ronald Burbidge	research scientist	1955-1957	Caltech
E. Margaret Burbidge	research scientist	1955-1957	Caltech
Richard Langley Sears	research scientist	1961-1964	Caltech

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Hoyle F, Fowler WA. (1999) Nucleosynthesis in supernovae Astrophysical Journal. 525: 898-923
Kawano LH, Fowler WA, Kavanagh RW, et al. (1991) Signatures of inhomogeneity in the early universe Astrophysical Journal. 372: 1-7
Michel FC, Kennel CF, Fowler WA. (1987) When will a pulsar in supernova 1987a be seen? Science (New York, N.Y.). 238: 938-40
Higdon JC, Fowler WA. (1987) Gamma-ray constraints on Na-22 yields in nova explosions The Astrophysical Journal. 317: 710
Wilson R, Araj KJ, Allen AO, et al. (1985) Report to the American Physical Society of the study group on radionuclide release from severe accidents at nuclear power plants Reviews of Modern Physics. 57: S1-S144
Fuller GM, Fowler WA, Newman MJ. (1985) Stellar weak interaction rates for intermediate-mass nuclei. IV - Interpolation procedures for rapidly varying lepton capture rates using effective log (ft)-values The Astrophysical Journal. 293: 1
Fowler WA. (1985) Ad astra per acceleratores Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, B. 10: 329-331
Caughlan GR, Fowler WA, Harris MJ, et al. (1985) Tables of thermonuclear reaction rates for low-mass nuclei (1 ≤ Z ≤ 14) Atomic Data and Nuclear Data Tables. 32: 197-233
Fowler WA. (1984) The quest for the origin of the elements. Science (New York, N.Y.). 226: 922-35
Mathews GJ, Mengoni A, Thielemann F, et al. (1983) Neutron capture rates in the r-process - The role of direct radiative capture The Astrophysical Journal. 270: 740

William Alfred Fowler, Ph.D.

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