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Hitchcock LECTURE SERIES

The Big Bang Revisited

Early Nucleosynthesis in an Inhomogeneous Universe

William Fowler, Institute Professor of Physics, Emeritus, California Institute of Technology

October 11, 1989

About William Fowler

William Fowler, an American astrophysicist, was the 1983 Nobel Prize winner in Physics for his theoretical and experimental studies of important nuclear reactions in the formation of chemical elements in the universe. He also proved that the abundance of almost all of the lightest chemical elements could be explained by the process of nucleosynthesis within stars.