Fifth European Summer School on Experimental Nuclear Astrophysics

Nuclear astrophysics plays a key role for understanding energy production in stars, stellar evolution and the concurrent synthesis of the chemical elements and their isotopes. The bone structure for the above aspects is based on nuclear reactions, whose rates need to be determined in laboratories. Although impressive progress has been made over the past decades, several open questions are still unsolved, which challenge the basis of the present understanding.

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Claus Rolfs, geb. 1941 in Bad Peterstal, studierte Physik in Freiburg und war ab 1973 ein enger Mitarbeiter von William Alfred Fowler, dem Physik-Nobel-Laureat von 1983, dem Mentor der Nuklearen Astrophysik.