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Margaret Burbidge

1919 - 2020

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Margaret Burbidge is the 168th most popular astronomer (up from 179th in 2019), the 1,346th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,525th in 2019) and the 25th most popular British Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Margaret Burbidge ranks 168 out of 644. Before her are Johann Adam Schall von Bell, Harlow Shapley, James Ferguson, Cornelis Johannes van Houten, John Goodricke, and Nicole-Reine Lepaute. After her are Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf, Carl Keenan Seyfert, Habash al-Hasib al-Marwazi, James Craig Watson, Giovanni Battista Hodierna, and Robert Grant Aitken.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Margaret Burbidge ranks 65. Before her are Valentino Mazzola, Peter Abrahams, Ryszard Kaczorowski, José Villalonga, Licio Gelli, and Charles Sweeney. After her are Maurice Herzog, Daniel Bell, Uta Hagen, Lauri Törni, Glafcos Clerides, and Wolfgang Wagner. Among people deceased in 2020, Margaret Burbidge ranks 109. Before her are Dana Zátopková, Pat Patterson, George Floyd, Florian Schneider, Quino, and Maj Sjöwall. After her are Per Olov Enquist, Jerry Stiller, George Blake, MF Doom, Kenzō Takada, and Wim Suurbier.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Margaret Burbidge ranks 1,346 out of 8,785. Before her are Frederick Browning (1896), Tony Atkinson (1944), Joseph Addison (1672), Alistair MacLean (1922), Charles Vane (1680), and James Faulkner (1948). After her are Mungo Park (1771), Winifred Wagner (1897), Elizabeth Siddal (1829), Dana Rosemary Scallon (1951), David Warner (1941), and E. E. Evans-Pritchard (1902).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United Kingdom

Among astronomers born in United Kingdom, Margaret Burbidge ranks 25. Before her are Williamina Fleming (1857), Adelard of Bath (1075), James Dunlop (1793), Jeremiah Horrocks (1618), William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse (1800), and James Ferguson (1797). After her are Norman Lockyer (1836), George Mary Searle (1839), Nevil Maskelyne (1732), John Bevis (1695), Francis Baily (1774), and Edward L. G. Bowell (1943).

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