https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-025-01542-4
Editorial
From reactors to stars
1
Sezione di Perugia, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Perugia, Italy
2
Konkoly Observatory, HUN-REN Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, 1121, Budapest, Hungary
3
CSFK, MTA Centre of Excellence, Budapest, 1121, Budapest, Hungary
4
Institute of Physics and Astronomy, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, 1117, Budapest, Hungary
5
School of Physics and Astronomy, Monash University, 3800, Monash, VIC, Australia
6
Agenzia Nazionale per le Nuove Tecnologie, L’energia e lo Sviluppo Economico Sostenibile (ENEA), Bologna, Italy
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Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA
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University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA
Received:
8
March
2025
Accepted:
12
March
2025
Published online:
31
March
2025
This Eur. Phys. J. A volume 58 is dedicated to the life and work of Dr. Franz Käppeler from Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT) who died on 20 November 2021, after a short illness. He was one of the leading experimentalists in the field of experimental nuclear astrophysics in Germany and worldwide for decades. Many of the authors of this volume knew Franz personally and many others were directly or indirectly inspired by his work and personality. All references in this introductory article refer to publications in this volume, not necessary to actual work by Dr. Käppeler.
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