B2FH sets out the synthesis of the elements in stars

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1. Story
2. Margaret Burbidge, Geoffrey Burbidge, William Fowler and Fred Hoyle published a 104-page review in Reviews of Modern Physics organising element production into a set of distinct nuclear processes operating in different stellar environments - hydrogen and helium burning, the alpha process, equilibrium burning to the iron peak, slow and rapid neutron capture, and others. It converted the origin of the elements from a cosmological puzzle into a problem in stellar physics, and its framework has been extended rather than replaced.
3. Knowledge
4. The iron peak in nuclear binding energy
5. Stellar nucleosynthesis
6. Rapid neutron capture (the r-process)
7. B2FH sets out the synthesis of the elements in stars
8. Connections
9. Stellar nucleosynthesis
10. The iron peak in nuclear binding energy
11. Rapid neutron capture (the r-process)
12. Hydrogen fusion: the proton-proton chain and the CNO cycle
13. The iron peak in nuclear binding energy
14. Rapid neutron capture (the r-process)
15. The first stars form from metal-free gas
16. B2FH sets out the synthesis of the elements in stars
17. A neutron-star merger is detected in gravitational waves and light
18. Supernova
19. Stellar nucleosynthesis
20. B2FH sets out the synthesis of the elements in stars
21. Stellar nucleosynthesis
22. Kilonova
23. B2FH sets out the synthesis of the elements in stars
24. A neutron-star merger is detected in gravitational waves and light
25. Evidence
26. Establishes stellar nucleosynthesis as the origin of the elements heavier than helium and organises production into distinct nuclear processes including slow and rapid neutron capture. Title, authors, journal, volume and pages were read from ADS and publisher listings via search; the review itself was not fetched, so the internal process taxonomy is described from secondary accounts.