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 has been at Cornell University since 1948.
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.
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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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