B2FH sets out the synthesis of the elements in stars
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.
Historical — it happened, and the record is settled.
Subjects
- Stellar nucleosynthesis · phenomenon · not located
- The iron peak in nuclear binding energy · physical threshold · not located
- Rapid neutron capture (the r-process) · phenomenon · not located
Evidence
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Synthesis of the Elements in Stars
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.
Reviews of Modern Physics (American Physical Society) · 1957-10 · Partly verified
E. M. Burbidge, G. R. Burbidge, W. A. Fowler and F. Hoyle, Reviews of Modern Physics 29(4), 547-650; DOI 10.1103/RevModPhys.29.547
Recorded on Stellar nucleosynthesis
- B2FH sets out the synthesis of the elements in stars
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