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Edwin Salpeter: The Astrophysicist Who Explained How Stars Live and Die
Edwin Salpeter was an Austrian-Australian-American astrophysicist whose work explained how stars create heavy elements, how they form, and how black holes power the brightest objects in the universe. His theories on stellar nuclear fusion, the initial mass function, and quasars fundamentally shaped modern astrophysics.