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Nuclear Astrophysics Before 1957

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2013

Edwin E. Salpeter
Edwin E. Salpeter*
Affiliation:
Space Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA. Email: ees12@cornell.edu
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Abstract

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I discuss especially my summer with Willy Fowler at Kellogg Radiation Laboratory in 1951, where I did my ‘triple alpha’ work. I also go back even earlier to Arthur Eddington and Hans Bethe. The 1953 summer school in Ann Arbor only gets a mention.

Keywords

history and philosophy of astronomynuclear reactions, nucleosynthesis, abundances
Type
Research Article
Information
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , 2008 , pp. 1 - 6
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 2008

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