윌리엄 앨프리드 파울러

소개

윌리엄 앨프리드 파울러(William Alfred "Willy" Fowler, 1911년 8월 9일~1995년 3월 14일)는 노벨 물리학상을 받은 미국의 천문학자이다.

William Alfred Fowler (August 9, 1911 – March 14, 1995) was an American astrophysicist. He shared the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his theoretical and experimental studies of the nuclear reactions of importance in the formation of the chemical elements in the universe." He is known for his theoretical and experimental research into nuclear reactions within stars and the energy elements produced in the process. With Margaret and Geoffrey Burbidge and Fred Hoyle, he authored the influential B2FH paper, Synthesis of the Elements in Stars.