Awards & Winners

William Alfred Fowler

Date of Birth 09-August-1911
Place of Birth Pittsburgh
(United States of America, Pennsylvania, Allegheny County, Area code 412, Area code 878)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Astronomer
William Alfred "Willy" Fowler was an American astrophysicist who, with Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar won the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics;.

Awards by William Alfred Fowler

Check all the awards nominated and won by William Alfred Fowler.

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.)

1974


National Medal of Science for Physical Science
(For his scientific contributions to nuclear physics and astrophysics, which permitted him to span both disciplines to unravel the nuclear processes that control the evolution of stars.)