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Researcher · California Institute of Technology · United States

William A. Fowler

William A. Fowler publishes mostly in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Radiation, on topics such as Nuclear physics research studies, Astro and Planetary Science and Nuclear Physics and Applications.

OpenAlex
World rank
#3,170
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,470
of 358,040
Works
82
Citations
1.6k
Citations per work
19.4

What does William A. Fowler research?

Nuclear and High Energy Physics: 28.8%Astronomy and Astrophysics: 21.2%Radiation: 11.5%Statistical and Nonlinear Physics: 5.8%other fields: 32.7%29%top field
Nuclear and High Energy Physics28.8%Astronomy and Astrophysics21.2%Radiation11.5%Statistical and Nonlinear Physics5.8%other fields32.7%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Nuclear and High Energy Physics29% of their works
  2. 2Astronomy and Astrophysics21% of their works
  3. 3Radiation12% of their works
  4. 4Statistical and Nonlinear Physics6% of their works
  5. 5Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics6% of their works
  6. 6Aerospace Engineering5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe William A. Fowler's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Nucleosynthesis, Nuclear Forces, Nuclear Structure, Solar System Abundances, Terrestrial Planets, Neutron Imaging, Small-Angle Scattering and Mass Measurements.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Nucleosynthesis182 topics
  2. Nuclear Forces131 topic
  3. Nuclear Structure131 topic
  4. Solar System Abundances101 topic
  5. Terrestrial Planets101 topic
  6. Neutron Imaging81 topic
  7. Small-Angle Scattering81 topic
  8. Mass Measurements51 topic
  9. Nuclear Masses51 topic
  10. Optics51 topic
  11. Spectroscopy51 topic
  12. DNA Strand Breaks41 topic
  13. Low-Energy Electrons41 topic
  14. Neutrino Flavor Transformation41 topic
  15. Neutrino Oscillations41 topic
  16. Neutron Emissions31 topic
  17. Piezonuclear Reactions31 topic

Where does William A. Fowler work?

William A. Fowler's main affiliation in the publication record is California Institute of Technology, United States.

How many publications and citations does William A. Fowler have?

Science Explorer counts 82 works and 1,592 citations for William A. Fowler, ranking #3,170 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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