March 31, 1986
the Quest for the Origin of the Elements
Dr. William A. Fowler
California Institute of Technology
Darwin 103
3:00 PM
Award Recipient: Bruce Medal, National Medal of Science, Nobel Prize
Dr. William A. Fowler of the California Institute of Technology will present an updated version of his 1983 Nobel lecture, discussing fifty years of experimental and theoretical work on the nuclear processes which generate energy in the sun and other stars and which have synthesized the chemical elements in the universe.