Alastair G. W. Cameron

Alastair Graham Walter Cameron ( * June 21, 1925 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, † October 3, 2005 in Tucson, Arizona, USA), was an astrophysicist.

Among his most famous works include theories of nucleosynthesis, in particular the formation of the unstable element technetium in the core of red giants, as well as the disappearance of the original atmosphere of the earth. The public use of Cameron influenced the course of U.S. planetary research program over the last decades.

Alastair Cameron was born in 1925 in the Canadian city of Winnipeg. After completing his education in Manitoba and Saskatchewan in 1959, he emigrated to the United States, where he received items at the California Institute of Technology, the Goddard Institute for Space Studies and at Yeshiva University in New York. In 1973 he became professor of astronomy at Harvard University and remained there for 26 years. Cameron was also from 1976 to 1982 Chairman of the Space Science Board of the National Academy of Sciences.

Cameron died in 2005 of heart failure.

Awards

Five days before his death it was revealed that he also in 2006 should receive the Hans Bethe price still count for his work on nuclear astrophysics, which are indeed already 50 years old, but their fundamentals.

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