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Nuclear Astrophysics Before 1957

Edwin E. Salpeter

Space Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA. Email: ees12@cornell.edu

Abstract

I discuss especially my summer with Willy Fowler at Kellogg Radiation Laboratory in 1951, where I did my ‘triple alpha’ work. I also go back even earlier to Arthur Eddington and Hans Bethe. The 1953 summer school in Ann Arbor only gets a mention.

Keywords: history and philosophy of astronomy — nuclear reactions, nucleosynthesis, abundances

Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia 25(1) 1–6 doi:10.1071/AS07036
Submitted: 19 September 2007 Accepted: 3 November 2007 Published: 14 April 2008