Edwin E. Salpeter

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academic astrophysicist person physicist

Edwin E. Salpeter was an influential Austrian–Australian astrophysicist best known for his pioneering work on stellar nucleosynthesis and the initial mass function of stars.

Aliases (2)

Erwin Salpeter ×2
Edwin Salpeter ×1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	academic → astrophysicist → person → physicist →
awardReceived	Eddington Medal → Hans A. Bethe Prize → Henry Norris Russell Lectureship → J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize →
birthCountry	Austria →
birthDate	1924-12-03 →
birthPlace	Vienna →
coAuthor	E. Margaret Burbidge → Fred Hoyle → Geoffrey Burbidge → Hans Bethe → William A. Fowler →
countryOfCitizenship	Australia → Austria → United States of America →
deathDate	2008-11-26 →
doctoralAdvisor	Rudolf Peierls →
educatedAt	University of Birmingham → University of Sydney →
employer	Cornell University →
familyName	Salpeter →
fieldOfWork	astrophysics → cosmology → theoretical physics →
givenName	Edwin →
influenced	models of galaxy evolution → modern theories of star formation →
influencedBy	Hans Bethe →
knownFor	Bethe–Salpeter equation → Salpeter initial mass function → Salpeter time → stellar nucleosynthesis → triple-alpha process → work on dark matter in galaxies → work on interstellar medium → work on quasars and active galactic nuclei →
memberOf	American Academy of Arts and Sciences → National Academy of Sciences → Royal Society →
notableWork	1951 paper on the triple-alpha process → 1955 paper on the initial mass function of stars → Bethe–Salpeter equation paper (1951) →
positionHeld	James A. Weeks Professor of Physical Sciences → professor of physics →
workLocation	Ithaca, New York →

Referenced by (4)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Bethe–Salpeter equation ("Erwin Salpeter") →	introducedBy
Bethe–Salpeter equation ("Erwin Salpeter") →	namedAfter
Henry Norris Russell Lectureship →	notableRecipient
Hans Bethe ("Edwin Salpeter") →	notableStudent