Today (March 14, 1995) is the Memorial Day of William Alfred Willie Fowler, the Nobel Prize-winning American nuclear physicist who made theoretical studies on atomic reactions.
William Alfred "Willie"
Fowler was born on August 9, 1911, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Fowler's parents
were John McLeod Fowler and Jenny Summers Watson. Fowler is the eldest of his
siblings, Arthur and Nelda. When Fowler was two years old, the family moved to
Lima, Ohio, the city of steam rail. Grew up near the Pennsylvania Railway Yard,
sparking interest in Foller's engines. Then in 1973, he travelled to the Soviet
Union to oversee the steam engine that operated the Trans-Siberian Railway. It
runs a nearly 2,500-kilometer route connecting Khabarovsk and Moscow. He graduated
from Ohio University. He was then a member of the Dow Cappa Epsilon
organization. He holds a PhD in Atomic Physics from the California Institute of
Technology.
Fowler continued to be interested
in steam engine operators. He had several steam engine operators of various
sizes. In 1936, Fowler became a research colleague at Caltech. In 1939, Fowler
became an assistant professor at Caltech. Although an experimental atomic
physicist, Fowler's most famous article is "The Compilation of the Elements
of the Stars". It worked with Cambridge cosmologist Fred Hoyle and two
young Cambridge astronomers, E.J. Worked with Margaret Purbitz and Jeffrey
Orbitz. A 1957 article on Criticisms of Modern Physics characterized most
nuclear processes for the formation of everything except the light chemical
components of stars. It is widely known as P2FH paper.
In 1942, Fowler became an
associate professor at Caltech. In 1946, Fowler became a professor at Caltech.
He was succeeded by Charles Larrison as director of the Kellogg Radiation
Laboratory at Foller Caltech. Then Steven E. Koon won. Fowler was awarded the
National Medal of Science by President Gerald Ford. Fowler won the Henry Norris
Russell Lecture of the American Astronomical Society in 1963, the Wetleson Prize
in 1973, the Eddington Medal in 1978, the Bruce Medal of the Pacific
Astronomical Society in 1979, and the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1983.
Theoretical and experimental studies on nuclear reactions essential to the
formation of chemical elements in the universe (shared with Subramaniam
Chandrasekhar.
Source By: Wikipedia
Information: Ramesh, Assistant
Professor of Physics, Nehru Memorial College, Puthanampatti, Trichy.
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