William Alfred Fowler
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Physics — 1983for his theoretical and experimental studies of the nuclear reactions of importance in the formation of the chemical elements in the universeTogether with: Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
- Citizenship
United States- Languages
- English
- date of birth
- 8/9/1911
- place of birth
- Pittsburgh
- date of death
- 3/14/1995
- place of death
- Pasadena
- Lived
- 83 years
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- occupation
- astronomer
- university teacher
- nuclear physicist
- physicist
- astrophysicist
- field of work
- astrophysics
- educated at
- California Institute of Technology
- Ohio State University
- employer
- California Institute of Technology
- member of
- National Academy of Sciences
- start time: 1956
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- American Astronomical Society
- American Philosophical Society
- start time: 1962
- National Academy of Sciences
- doctoral student
- J. Richard Bond
- Alvin V. Tollestrup
- Donald D. Clayton
- end time: 1961
- Arthur B. McDonald
- notable work
- B²FH paper