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Supermassive Objects in Astrophysics

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The scientific interests of William A. Fowler cover an unusually wide range. The symposium held at the Institute of Theoretical Astronomy, Cambridge, on July 19 to 21, 1971, in honour of his sixtieth birthday was designed to explore some of the topics with which he has been concerned and the relasionships among them.

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TRIMBLE, V. Supermassive Objects in Astrophysics. Nature 232, 607–611 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/232607a0

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