FRANCIS FOWLER, Was born in Windsor, Vt., Nov. 11, 1808.
He was a son of Rev. Bancroft Fowler, a graduate of Vale, in 1796, formerly Professor in the Theological Seminary in Bangor, Me., now a resident of Stockbridge, Mass.
William Alfred "Willy" Fowler (August 9, 1911 – March 14, 1995) was an American astrophysicist.
He should not be confused with the British astronomer AlfredFowler.
Fowler won the Henry Norris Russell Lectureship of the American Astronomical Society in 1963, the Eddington Medal in 1978, the Bruce Medal in 1979, and the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1983 for his theoretical and experimental studies of the nuclear reactions of importance in the formation of the chemical elements in the universe.
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