The 1957 landmark paper: Burbidge, Burbidge, Fowler, and Hoyle 1957. A very lively, popular account of the history of the theory of nucleosynthesis is Chown 2001. Tyson and Goldsmith 2004 provide a clear, humorous, multidisciplinary tour of cosmic evolution, from cosmology to biology.

Both Fowler and Hoyle presented their results: Hoyle 1958, p. 279; Fowler 1958, p. 269.

a summary of the entire meeting: Hoyle 1958, p. 431.

felt that Hoyle should have also: For an online discussion of the issue of Hoyle’s not winning the Nobel Prize, see, eg, www.thelonggoodread.com/2010/10/08/fred-hoyle-the-scientist-whose-rudeness-cost-him-a-nobel-prize.

“The theory of stellar nucleosynthesis”: Burbidge 2008. Nuclear astrophysicist Donald Clayton also explained the enormous significance of Hoyle’s 1954 paper; Clayton 2007.