How the sun shines
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v3 High Energy Physics - Experiment
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Theory
History and Philosophy of Physics
Popular Physics
Abstract
This historical essay describes the struggle to understand how the sun shines. The story begins with the disagreement between Kelvin and Darwin over the age of the sun in the middle of the 19th century and continues through the revelations of solar neutrino experiments at the conclusion of the 20th century.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0009259,
title = {How the sun shines},
author = {John N. Bahcall},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0009259},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
Published by the Nobel e-Museum, June 29, 2000. See http://www.nobel.se/physics/articles . Related material: http://www.sns.ias.edu/~jnb