Margaret Burbidge
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Eleanor Margaret Burbidge,
Burbidge held several leadership and administrative posts, including
Research career
Burbidge studied at
In 1951 she took a position at the
When Fowler moved back to the U.S., he advised the Burbidges to come with him to California, suggesting Margaret (the observer) should re-apply for the fellowship at
She joined the
In 1972 Burbidge became director of the
Burbidge campaigned in opposition to
From 1979 to 1988, she served as the first director of the UCSD's Center for Astrophysics and Space Science.[11][5] In 1981 she was elected President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), serving her one-year term from February 1982 to February 1983.[16]
At UCSD she helped develop the
Personal life
Eleanor Margaret Peachey was born in
On 2 April 1948, Margaret Peachey married
Honors
Awards
- Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy, 1959, awarded jointly with Geoffrey Burbidge, for the B2FH paper[20]
- Fellow of the Royal Society, 1964[10]
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1969)[22]
- President, American Astronomical Society (1976-1978)[11]
- Karl G. Jansky Lecturer, National Radio Astronomy Observatory (1977)[11]
- Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1978)[23]
- Member of the American Philosophical Society (1980)[24]
- Catherine Wolfe Bruce medal of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (1982)[11]
- National Medal of Science (1983)[25]
- President, American Association for the Advancement of Science (1983)[11]
- Henry Norris Russell Lectureship (1984)[17]
- Association pour le Développement International de l'Observatoire de Nice (ADION) medal (1987)[11]
- Albert Einstein World Award of Science (1988)[26]
- Inducted into the Women's Museum of California Hall of Fame (2003)[18]
- Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, with Geoffrey Burbidge (2005)[11]
- Inaugural Fellow of the American Astronomical Society (2020)[27]
Named after her
- 5490 Burbidge[11]
- Margaret Burbidge Award of the American Physical Society[28]
See also
References
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- ^ a b c d e f Fox, Margalit (6 April 2020). "E. Margaret Burbidge, astronomer who blazed trails on Earth, dies at 100". The New York Times (obituary). Retrieved 6 April 2020.
- ISBN 1-56396-231-4.
- ^ a b c Horgan, Denys (February 2001). "UCSD astronomer recognized for ending widespread ban on women using telescopes". UCSD Times. Vol. 15, no. 4. Archived from the original on 14 April 2005. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
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- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Tenn, Joseph. "Eleanor Margaret Peachey Burbidge". The Bruce Medalists. Sonoma State University. Retrieved 6 March 2023.
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- ^ Ridpath, Ian (1972). "The astronomer who came back". New Scientist. Vol. 55. pp. 572–574.
- ^ a b "E. Margaret Burbidge". Oral Histories. American Institute of Physics. 9 January 2015. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
I was not made Astronomer Royal. This gave one less leverage in any political battle.
- ^ ISBN 0816031738.
- ^ a b "Henry Norris Russell Lectureship". American Astronomical Society. Retrieved 6 March 2023.
- ^ a b "Margaret Burbidge: 2003 trailblazer". Women’s Museum of California. Archived from the original on 13 September 2016. Retrieved 13 August 2013.
- ^ .
- ^ a b "Burbidge, Margaret (1919—)". Women in World History: A biographical encyclopedia. Encyclopedia.com. 7 May 2020. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
- ^ Faulkner, John (18 February 2010). "Geoffrey Burbidge". The Guardian (obituary).
- ^ "1780–2010: Chapter B" (PDF). Book of Members. American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 25 July 2014.
- ^ "E. Margaret Burbidge". National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 21 June 2022.
- ^ "E. Margaret Burbidge". The President's National Medal of Science. Recipient Details. National Science Foundation. Retrieved 13 August 2013.
- ^ "Albert Einstein World Award of Science 1988". Archived from the original on 7 June 2014. Retrieved 13 August 2013.
- ^ "American Astronomical Society Announces First Class of AAS Fellows". American Astronomical Society. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
- ^ "Prizes & Awards". Far West section. American Physical Society. Retrieved 6 March 2023.
Further reading
- Her autobiography: Burbidge, E. Margaret (1994). "Watcher of the Skies". .
- Byers, Nina, ed. (2006). Out of the shadows: contributions of twentieth-century women to physics (Reprinted. ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521821971.
- Shearer, Benjamin; Shearer, Barbara, eds. (1997). Notable women in the physical sciences: a biographical dictionary (1. publ. ed.). Westport, Conn. [u.a.]: ISBN 978-0313293030.
- Sargent, Anneila I.; Longair, Malcolm S. (2021). "Eleanor Margaret Burbidge. 12 August 1919—5 April 2020". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 71: 11–35. S2CID 237283034.
External links
- Marcy, G. "Burbidge". San Francisco State University. Archived from the original on 6 March 2005. — Short biography
- "E. Burbige". Physics Department. University of California, San Diego. — Personal web page at UCSD physics.