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In 1951 Salpeter suggested that Star s could burn Helium into Carbon with the Triple-alpha Process . He later derived the Initial Mass Function for the formation rates of stars of different mass in the Galaxy .

Salpeter wrote with Hans Bethe two articles in 1951 which introduced the equation bearing their names, the Bethe-Salpeter Equation which describes the interactions between a pair of Fundamental Particles under a Quantum Field Theory .


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