| William A. Fowler  AKA William Alfred Fowler
Born: 9-Aug-1911
Birthplace: Pittsburgh, PA
Died: 14-Mar-1995
Location of death: Pasadena, CA
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Astronomer, Physicist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Element generation within stars Father: John MacLeod Fowler (accountant)
Mother: Jennie Summers Watson Fowler
Brother: Arthur Watson Fowler (mechanical engineer)
Sister: Nelda Fowler Wood
Wife: Ardiane Foy Olmsted (d. 1988, two daughters)
Daughter: Mary Emily
Daughter: Martha Summers
Wife: Mary Dutcher (m. 1989)
High School: Lima Central High School, Lima, OH (1929)
University: BS, Ohio State University (1933)
University: PhD Nuclear Physics, California Institute of Technology (1936)
Professor: California Institute of Technology (1939-)
Nobel Prize for Physics 1983 (with Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar)
National Medal of Science 1974
Eddington Medal 1978
Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity
Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society
National Academy of Sciences 1956
American Physical Society President (1976)
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