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Geoffrey Burbidge
FRS
Born
Geoffrey Ronald Burbidge

(1925-09-24)24 September 1925
Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, U.K.
Died26 January 2010(2010-01-26) (aged 84)
La Jolla, California, U.S.
Alma mater
  • University of Bristol
  • University College London (PhD)
Spouse
Margaret Burbidge
(m. 1948)
Awards
  • Warner Prize (1959)
  • Bruce Medal (1999)
  • Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (2007)
  • NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing (2007)
Scientific career
FieldsTheoretical astrophysics
ThesisThe interaction between mesons and light atoms (1951)
Doctoral advisorH.S.W. Massey
Websitecasswww.ucsd.edu/archive/personal/gburbidge.html

Geoffrey Ronald Burbidge FRS[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.

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "Geoffrey Burbidge personal page". ucsd.edu.

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