Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (2007)
NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing (2007)
Scientific career
Fields
Theoretical astrophysics
Thesis
The interaction between mesons and light atoms(1951)
Doctoral advisor
H.S.W. Massey
Website
casswww.ucsd.edu/archive/personal/gburbidge.html
Geoffrey Ronald BurbidgeFRS[1] (24 September 1925 – 26 January 2010) was an English astronomy professor and theoretical astrophysicist, most recently at the University of California, San Diego. He was married to astrophysicist Margaret Burbidge[2] and was the second author of the influential B2FH paper which she led.
^Longair, Malcolm; Rees, Martin (2017). "Geoffrey Ronald Burbidge. 24 September 1925 – 26 January 2010". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 63: 55–78. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2017.0002. ISSN 0080-4606.
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became known as B2FH from the initials of its authors: Margaret Burbidge, GeoffreyBurbidge, William A. Fowler, and Fred Hoyle. It was written from 1955...
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original energy source for these relativistic jets. Arthur M. Wolfe and GeoffreyBurbidge noted in 1970 that the large velocity dispersion of the stars in the...
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2001, GeoffreyBurbidge remarked in a review that the wider astronomical community has marginalized such discussions since the 1960s. Burbidge and Halton...
energy-producing nuclear reactions that power the Sun. In 1957, Margaret Burbidge, GeoffreyBurbidge, William Fowler and Fred Hoyle showed that most of the elements...
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existence of the neutrino. 1957 William Alfred Fowler, Margaret Burbidge, GeoffreyBurbidge, and Fred Hoyle In their 1957 paper Synthesis of the Elements...
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weak interaction. 1957: Margaret Burbidge releases the landmark B2FH paper as first author along with GeoffreyBurbidge, William A. Fowler, and Fred Hoyle...
co-authored biographies of John E. Baldwin, Vitaly Ginzburg, Brian Pippard, GeoffreyBurbidge and David J. C. MacKay. Books High Energy Astrophysics: Volume 1,...
published after their retirement or death. Leo Goldberg (1963–1973) GeoffreyBurbidge (1974–2004) Roger Blandford (2005–2011) Ewine van Dishoeck and Sandra...
California, Berkeley) 1977–1979 Ann Boesgaard (U. of Hawaii) 1975–1977 GeoffreyBurbidge (U. of California, San Diego) 1973–1975 Ray Weymann (U. of Arizona)...
literature, frequently collaborating with GeoffreyBurbidge (until Burbidge's death in 2010) and Margaret Burbidge. He explained his reasons for believing...
pairs with opposite spin 1957 – William Alfred Fowler, Margaret Burbidge, GeoffreyBurbidge, and Fred Hoyle, in their 1957 paper Synthesis of the Elements...
epidemiologist, worked on link between lung cancer and smoking. 26 January – GeoffreyBurbidge (b. 1925), astronomer, B2FH coauthor. 28 January – Patricia Clarke...