= Ward Whaling
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= W. Whaling
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An experimental <physicist> who coauthored the 1953 measurement of the <carbon-12> level associated with the <Hoyle state>. Magnetic analysis of outgoing <alpha particles> identified the residual nucleus's excitation. The paper acknowledges <Fred Hoyle> for identifying the astrophysical importance of that level, directly connecting a laboratory spectrum with stellar carbon production.<The 7.68-Mev state in C12 by David Noel Ferguson Dunbar and others>[Abstract and closing acknowledgment]{ref}
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