Edwin Ernest Salpeter
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Edwin Ernest Salpeter (born December 3 1924) is an Austrian-Australian-American astronomer. He emigrated from Austria to Australia while in his teens. He received his PhD from Birmingham University in 1948, since when he has been at Cornell University. He is currently the James Gilbert White Distinguished Professor of the Physical Sciences, Emeritus.
In 1951 Salpeter suggested that stars could burn helium into carbon with the Triple-alpha process. He later derived the initial mass function for the formation rates of stars of different mass in the Galaxy.
Honors
- Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1973)
- Henry Norris Russell Lectureship (1974)
- Bruce Medal (1987)
- Crafoord Prize with Fred Hoyle (1997)
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