One thing everybody agrees on is that Hoyle was shortchanged in 1983, when Fowler shared the Nobel Prize in Physics (with Subramanyan Chandrasekhar) for his work
on nucleosynthesis.
Not exact matches
All her arguments have already been made
on the basis of Big Bang evidence (relation between the distance and speed of galaxies,
nucleosynthesis, etc.).
But instead of citing the 1954 study, Clayton says, researchers discussing fusional element formation, or
nucleosynthesis, typically reference a 1957 paper co-authored by Hoyle and three colleagues, which went into greater detail but
on other facets of the problem, says Donald Clayton, professor emeritus of physics and astronomy at Clemson University in South Carolina.
Then a series of lectures follow
on their contributions to the
nucleosynthesis and chemical evolution of the Milky Way and dwarf galaxies in the local group and to the evolutionary characteristics of planet - hosting stars from theoretical and observational viewpoints.