views concerning the Big Bang stopped him being awarded a share of the Nobel Prize. Geoffrey Burbidge wrote in 2008, "Hoyle should have been awarded a Nobel Prize for this and other work. On the basis of my private correspondence, I believe that a major reason for his exclusion was that W. A. Fowler was believed to be the leader of the group." Burbidge stated that this perception is not true and pointed to Hoyle's earlier papers from 1946 and 1954. Burbidge said that "Hoyle's work has been undercited in part because it was published in an astrophysical journal, and a new one at that (the very first volume, in fact), whereas B2FH was published in a well-established physics journal, Reviews of Modern Physics. When B2FH was first written, preprints were widely distributed to the nuclear physics community. Willy Fowler was very well known as a leader in that community, and the California Institute of Technology already had a news bureau that knew how to spread the word." In 2007 a conference was held at Caltech in Pasadena, California to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the publication of B2FH, where Geoffrey Burbidge presented remarks on the writing of B2FH. See also Alpher–Bethe–Gamow paper Further reading References {{DISPLAYTITLE:B2FH paper}} Nuclear physics Nucleosynthesis Astrophysics 1957 documents 1957 in science Physics papers