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Document 201700

ASTROPHYSICS: WILLIAM A. FOWLER
Awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Mathematical Expression signed: "William A. Fowler/Almost 50 years later!", 1p, 8½x11. Photocopy of his mathematical notes relating to astrophysics, originally written in the 1930s. Fowler (1911-1995) was Professor of Physics at the California Institute of Technology from 1939-1982. For much of his career, he was the acknowledged leader in the research area of astrophysics. Fowler's work in nuclear physics began in the 1930s. In 1983, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics, with Subrahmanya Chandrasekhar, for his theoretical and experimental studies of nuclear reactions in the formation of the chemical elements in the universe. Lightly creased. Fine condition.

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