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Geoffrey Burbidge

1925 - 2010

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Geoffrey Ronald Burbidge (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 and was the second author of the influential B2FH paper which she led. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Geoffrey Burbidge is the 404th most popular astronomer (up from 459th in 2019), the 3,183rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,779th in 2019) and the 50th most popular British Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Geoffrey Burbidge ranks 404 out of 644. Before him are Kiyotsugu Hirayama, Viktor Knorre, Alvan Graham Clark, Henry E. Holt, Dorothea Klumpke, and Ludwig Biermann. After him are Jill Tarter, Michael E. Brown, Bart Bok, Friedrich Tietjen, Georg Marcgrave, and John Pond.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Geoffrey Burbidge ranks 283. Before him are Anne-Marie Colchen, Pierre Mondy, Carmen Martín Gaite, Ignacio López Tarso, Tajuddin Ahmad, and Jan Wolkers. After him are Jacques Sernas, Justus Dahinden, Ilona Novák, Abdelsalam Majali, Hasse Jeppson, and Bernardo Ruiz. Among people deceased in 2010, Geoffrey Burbidge ranks 233. Before him are Hans Ørberg, Zelda Rubinstein, Yvonne Loriod, Jacqueline de Romilly, Gheorghe Apostol, and Marie Osborne Yeats. After him are Zoltán Varga, Ronald Neame, Imre Polyák, Robert Byrd, Dixie Carter, and Nelly Landry.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Geoffrey Burbidge ranks 3,184 out of 8,785. Before him are Gareth Southgate (1970), Ken McArthur (1881), Edwin Atherstone (1788), Stephen Wolfram (1959), Gary Lewis (1957), and Trevor Pinnock (1946). After him are David Heyman (1961), Peter Swan (1936), Mick Jackson (1943), David Mitchell (1974), Blanche Bingley (1863), and Mary Renault (1905).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United Kingdom

Among astronomers born in United Kingdom, Geoffrey Burbidge ranks 50. Before him are James Glaisher (1809), Cyril Jackson (1903), Johann von Lamont (1805), Frank Watson Dyson (1868), David C. Jewitt (1958), and Nathaniel Bliss (1700). After him are John Pond (1767), Harry Edwin Wood (1881), Mary Adela Blagg (1858), Herbert Hall Turner (1861), Ralph Copeland (1837), and William Robert Brooks (1844).

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