That 1957 paper in Reviews of Modern Physics categorized most nuclear processes for origin of all but the lightest chemical elements in stars. It is widely known as the B2FH paper. In 1942, Fowler became an associate professor at Caltech.
What did William Alfred Fowler discover?
And when a high enough temperature is reached, reactions among the atomic nuclei in the star's interior begin. These reactions are what causes radiation from stars. In the 1950s William Fowler showed how these nuclear reactions also account for how various elements are formed.
What did William Fowler do?
William Fowler, in full William Alfred Fowler, (born August 9, 1911, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died March 14, 1995, Pasadena, California), American nuclear astrophysicist who, with Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1983 for his role in formulating a widely accepted theory of element ...