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There is another William Fowler who was a Scottish Poet and uncle of William Drummond Of Hawthornden William Alfred "Willy" Fowler ( August 9 , 1911 – March 14 , 1995 ) was an American Astrophysicist . He should not be confused with the British astronomer Alfred Fowler . Fowler was born in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania . He graduated from The Ohio State University and went on to receive a Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics at the California Institute Of Technology . His seminal paper ''Synthesis of the Elements in Stars'' (''Reviews of Modern Physics'', vol. 29, Issue 4, pp. 547–650), coauthored with E. Margaret Burbidge , Geoffrey Burbidge , and Fred Hoyle , was published in 1957 . The paper explained how the abundances of essentially all but the lightest Chemical Element s could be explained by the process of Nucleosynthesis in stars. Fowler won the Henry Norris Russell Lectureship of the American Astronomical Society in 1963 , the Eddington Medal in 1978 , the Bruce Medal in 1979 , and the Nobel Prize For Physics in 1983 for his theoretical and experimental studies of the Nuclear Reaction s of importance in the formation of the chemical elements in the universe. He died in Pasadena , California . EXTERNAL LINKS Obituaries |