Eleanor Margaret Burbidge, FRS (née Peachey; 12 August 1919 – 5 April 2020) was a British-American observational astronomer and astrophysicist. In the 1950s, she was one of the founders of stellar nucleosynthesis and was first author of the influential B2FH paper. During the 1960s and 1970s she worked on galaxy rotation curves and quasars, discovering the most distant astronomical object then known. In the 1980s and 1990s she helped develop and utilise the Faint Object Spectrograph on the Hubble Space Telescope. Burbidge was also well known for her work opposing discrimination against women in astronomy.
Burbidge held several leadership and administrative posts, including director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory (1973–1975), president of the American Astronomical Society (1976–1978), and president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1983). Burbidge worked at the University of London Observatory, Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago, the Cavendish Laboratory of the University of Cambridge, the California Institute of Technology, and the University of California San Diego (UCSD). From 1979 to 1988 she was the first director of the Center for Astronomy and Space Sciences at UCSD, where she worked from 1962 until her retirement.
Eleanor MargaretBurbidge, FRS (née Peachey; 12 August 1919 – 5 April 2020) was a British-American observational astronomer and astrophysicist. In the...
it became known as B2FH from the initials of its authors: MargaretBurbidge, Geoffrey Burbidge, William A. Fowler, and Fred Hoyle. It was written from 1955...
married to astrophysicist MargaretBurbidge and was the second author of the influential B2FH paper which she led. Burbidge was born in Chipping Norton...
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In 1963, Rubin began a year-long collaboration with Geoffrey and MargaretBurbidge, during which she made her first observations of the rotation of galaxies...
University of Cape Town. p. 2. Retrieved 14 September 2022. Burbidge, E. Margaret; Burbidge, G. R.; Fowler, William A.; Hoyle, F. (October 1957). "Synthesis...
Synthesis of the Elements in Stars, William Alfred Fowler, MargaretBurbidge, Geoffrey Burbidge, and Fred Hoyle explained how the abundances of essentially...
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physicists who met in Cambridge: William Alfred Fowler, MargaretBurbidge, and Geoffrey Burbidge. This group systematized basic ideas of how all the chemical...
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Lightning." A 2017 "Women of NASA" Lego set featured mini-figurines of Ride, Margaret Hamilton, Mae Jemison, and Nancy Roman. In 2019, Mattel released a Barbie...
Parenthood Federation (IPPF). PPFA has its roots in Brooklyn, New York, where Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, in 1916...
with Margaret and Geoffrey Burbidge, "Synthesis of the Elements in Stars" Significantly, MargaretBurbidge was first author, Geoffrey Burbidge second...
the first female president of the American Physical Society. 1976: MargaretBurbidge, born in England, was named as the first female president of the American...
Margaret "Midge" Costanza (November 28, 1932 – March 23, 2010) was an American Presidential advisor, social and political activist. A lifelong champion...
5 times; Marietta Blau, nominated 3 times; and Hertha Wambacher, MargaretBurbidge and Janine Connes, nominated once. As of 2024, Connes was still alive...
energy-producing nuclear reactions that power the Sun. In 1957, MargaretBurbidge, Geoffrey Burbidge, William Fowler and Fred Hoyle showed that most of the elements...
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award is named in honor of American astronomer Annie Jump Cannon. MargaretBurbidge was due to be given the 1972 award, but she refused it on the grounds...
Research Professor of Statistics, University of Wisconsin–Madison MargaretBurbidge, astrophysicist, former American Astronomical Society President, former...
physics, a rumor later confirmed by the astronomers Geoffrey and MargaretBurbidge after speaking with "Chandra. "Edwin Hubble | American astronomer"...
Anderson, Yoichiro Nambu, Edward Teller, Charles H. Townes 1983—MargaretBurbidge, Maurice Goldhaber, Helmut Landsberg, Walter Munk, Frederick Reines...
(1985) Monokombu Sambasivan Swaminathan (1986) Hugh Huxley (1987) MargaretBurbidge (1988) Martin Kamen (1989) 1990s Gustav Nossal (1990) Albrecht Fleckenstein...
(1985) Monokombu Sambasivan Swaminathan (1986) Hugh Huxley (1987) MargaretBurbidge (1988) Martin Kamen (1989) 1990s Gustav Nossal (1990) Albrecht Fleckenstein...
698.1963R. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/698/2/1963. S2CID 14814446. Burbidge, E. Margaret; Burbidge, G. R.; Fowler, William A.; Hoyle, F. (1 October 1957). "Synthesis...
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