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William Alfred Fowler August 9, — March 14, was an American nuclear physicist, later astrophysicist , who, with Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar , was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. He is known for his theoretical and experimental research into nuclear reactions within stars and the energy elements produced in the process [ 1 ] and was one of the authors of the influential B 2 FH paper.

On 9 August , Fowler was born in Pittsburgh. Fowler was the eldest of his siblings, Arthur and Nelda.

He was reared in Victoria, attended the University of Texas, and began his career in as a crime reporter for the Austin Statesman (see.

The family moved to Lima, Ohio , a steam railroad town, when Fowler was two years old. Growing up near the Pennsylvania Railroad yard influenced Fowler's interest in locomotives. In , he travelled to the Soviet Union just to observe the steam engine that powered the Trans-Siberian Railway plying the nearly 2,kilometre 1, mi route that connects Khabarovsk and Moscow.

In , Fowler received a Ph. In , Fowler became a research fellow at Caltech. Although an experimental nuclear physicist, Fowler's most famous paper was his collaboration with Margaret and Geoffrey Burbidge, " Synthesis of the Elements in Stars " Significantly, Margaret Burbidge was first author, her husband Geoffrey Burbidge second, Fowler third, and Cambridge cosmologist Fred Hoyle.

That paper in Reviews of Modern Physics [ 7 ] categorized most nuclear processes for origin of all but the lightest chemical elements in stars. It is widely known as the B 2 FH paper. Though the theory of Stellar Nucleosynthesis established in the paper was later cited by the Nobel Committee as the reason for Fowler's Nobel in Physics, neither any of the Burbidges nor Hoyle shared in the award.

In , Fowler became an associate professor at Caltech. In , Fowler became a Professor at Caltech. Fowler succeeded Charles Lauritsen as director of the W.