Sentences with phrase «nucleosynthesis as»

Do you know the story about Hans Bethe's discovery of stellar nucleosynthesis as their power source?

As an analog to your question, one could ask what tests might cause us to radically reassess the atomic theory of matter or nucleosynthesis as the model for energy generation in stars?

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Hoyle was a different bird, but he was the key contributor to the nucleosynthesis theory, that secures him as one of the big scientists of the 20th century.

Their theory, known as Big Bang Nucleosynthesis, included detailed predictions of how much of each element would have been produced in the roughly three minutes of nuclear reactions.

This is known as the Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) era.

«Enriching our knowledge of the structures of highly unstable nuclei and the nucleon - nucleon forces that drive nuclear shell evolution and the appearance or disappearance of the nuclear magic numbers in radioactive nuclei plays an important role in understanding astrophysical processes such as nucleosynthesis in stars,» he adds.

At a recent conference commemorating the 50th anniversary of that paper, known as B2FH for the initials of its authors (Geoffrey and Margaret Burbidge, now at the University of California, San Diego, along with the late Willy Fowler of the California Institute of Technology and Hoyle), Clayton said that of 30 major nucleosynthesis papers published between 1960 and 1973, 18 cited B2FH and only one gave the nod to Hoyle's 1954 paper.

Astronomers have long suspected that they are synthesized in neutron star collisions through rapid capture of neutrons — what is known as r - process nucleosynthesis — but had no proof.