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Things we talked about in this episode:

The BBFH paper

Nucleosynthesis

P-P chain reaction

The Hot CNO cycle

Margaret Burbidge obituary, 5 April 2020

Geoffrey Burbidge obituary, 6 Feb 2010

William Fowler

The Nobel Prize 1983

Frank Hoyle

Hoyle and the Big Bang

Panspermia