Margaret Burbidge: Quick Facts


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Also Known As Eleanor Margaret Peachey • Eleanor Margaret Burbidge
Born August 12, 1919 • England
Died April 5, 2020 (aged 100) • San Francisco • California
Awards And Honors Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (2005)
Subjects Of Study nucleosynthesis • quasar

Airy, c. 1877
Sir George Biddell Airy
English astronomer
Sir Harold Spencer Jones.
Sir Harold Spencer Jones
British astronomer
James Bradley
James Bradley
English astronomer
Fred Hoyle
Sir Fred Hoyle
British mathematician and astronomer
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John Pond
British astronomer
Lovell, Sir Bernard
Sir Bernard Lovell
English radio astronomer
Sir Frank Dyson, 1927.
Sir Frank Dyson
British astronomer
Edmond Halley
Edmond Halley
British scientist
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John Flamsteed
British astronomer
“Lady with the Lamp”
Florence Nightingale
British nurse, statistician, and social reformer
Arthur Stanley Eddington.
Arthur Eddington
British scientist
John Herschel
Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet
English astronomer
Martin Rees
Martin Rees
British cosmologist and astrophysicist
Mabel St. Clair Stobart
Mabel St. Clair Stobart
English feminist and medical worker
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David Simon, Lord Simon of Highbury
British industrialist and politician
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
British botanist
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Peter Hall
English theatrical manager and director
Sir Harold Jeffreys
Sir Harold Jeffreys
British astronomer and geophysicist
Sir Martin Ryle.
Sir Martin Ryle
British astronomer
Charles Mathews, detail from a mezzotint by C. Turner, 1825, after an oil painting by James Lonsdale
Charles Mathews
British actor