Clemson University Wordmark

Philip A. Seeger and Donald Clayton outside Seeger's Los Alamos home in December 1967 following a snowstorm. Clayton was preparing to present a colloquium there on heavy-element nucleosynthesis. Seeger and Clayton were friends from graduate school in Kellogg Radiation Lab at Caltech in the 1960s. Their 1965 paper with Fowler (ApJ Suppl, 11, 121-166 (1965)) presented the first dynamical formulation of the r process of rapid neutron capture, which guided all subsequent work on the r process. That paper also contained the first evaluations of an exponential distribution of neutron fluxes in the s process. Other photos of Seeger and Clayton can be found in 1959 Kellogg Lab, in 1982 Neutron 50th, and 1995 Fowler Memorial.



These pages are maintained by the Astrophysics Group at Clemson University.
Department of Physics and Astronomy © 1999. All rights reserved.