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Margaret Burbidge and the Dawn of Nucleosynthesis Theory
If you had asked a random astronomer in the 1930s how all of the elements in the universe were produced, they would have had a ready and instant answer: during the Big Bang event. Hypothesised in 1927 by Georges Lemaitre and heavily reinforced by Edwin Hubble’s 1929 interpretation of stellar red-shifts as evidence of an expanding universe, the Big Bang seemed an ideal explanation of how the universe’s elements arose – all produced at once in one grand moment of matter creatio
Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 24, 2023
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