Salpeter

Salpeter may refer to:

Science

  • 11757 Salpeter, a minor planet found in 1960 by a team from Palomar Observatory
  • Bethe–Salpeter equation, describes two-particle quantum field binding, derived by Hans Bethe and Edwin Salpeter
  • Salpeter process, a process of nuclear fusion mathematically defined by Edwin Salpeter
  • Salpeter initial mass function, an early and influential model for the distribution of the masses of stars upon formation

People

  • Edwin Ernest Salpeter (1924–2008), US astrophysicist
  • Greta Salpeter (born 1988), US musician
  • Lonah Chemtai Salpeter (born 1988), Kenyan-born Israeli Olympic runner
  • Miriam Salpeter (1929—2000). US neurobiologist, wife of Edwin Ernest Salpeter

See also

Topics referred to by the same term
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