An experimental researcher whose team identified an excited state of carbon-12 by analyzing alpha particles emitted in a nuclear reaction. Their 1953 report measured the level near 7.68 MeV and acknowledged Fred Hoyle’s explanation of its astrophysical importance. The state now called the Hoyle state is central to understanding how stars form carbon.[ref]
The 7.68-Mev state in C12 by David Noel Ferguson Dunbar and others. Abstract and acknowledgement: magnetic analysis, excitation energy and Hoyle’s interpretation
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