Nuclear Astrophysics Before 1957
Abstract
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.
- Publication:
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
- Pub Date:
- 2008
- DOI:
- 10.1071/AS07036
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0711.3139
- Bibcode:
- 2008PASA...25....1S
- Keywords:
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- history and philosophy of astronomy;
- nuclear reactions;
- nucleosynthesis;
- abundances;
- Astrophysics;
- Nuclear Theory;
- Physics - History of Physics
- E-Print:
- 16 pages