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Margaret Burbidge

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Gender Female
Death3 years ago
Born Davenport
Stockport
United Kingdom
Spouse Geoffrey Burbidge
BooksQuasi-stellar Objects: Geoffrey Burbidge and Margaret Burbidge
Known for Astrophysics
Fellow of the Royal Society
B2FH paper
Job Educator
Astrophysicist
Awards National Medal of Science for Physical Science
Albert Einstein World Award of Science
Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society
Date of birth August 12,1919
Zodiac sign Leo
DiedSan Francisco
California
United States
Current partner Geoffrey Burbidge
NationalityAmerican
British
Date of died April 5,2020
Education University College London
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Margaret Burbidge Life story


Eleanor Margaret Burbidge, FRS 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.

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