William Alfred Fowler

William Alfred Fowler
Born	(1911-08-09)August 9, 1911 Pittsburgh
Died	March 14, 1995(1995-03-14) (aged 83) Pasadena, California
Other names	Willy Fowler
Alma mater	Ohio State University Caltech (PhD)
Awards	Medal for Merit (1948) Barnard Medal for Meritorious Service to Science (1965) Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics (1970) Vetlesen Prize (1973) National Medal of Science (1974) Eddington Medal (1978) Nobel Prize in Physics (1983)
Scientific career
Doctoral advisor	Charles Christian Lauritsen
Doctoral students	James M. Bardeen, J. Richard Bond, Donald Clayton, George M. Fuller, F. Curtis Michel, Arthur B. McDonald

William Alfred Fowler (August 9, 1911 – March 14, 1995) was an American nuclear physicist, later astrophysicist, who, with Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, was awarded the 1983 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 B²FH paper.