Geoffrey Burbidge
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Geoffrey Ronald Burbidge FRS 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... Wikipedia
Born: September 24, 1925, Chipping Norton, United Kingdom
Died: January 26, 2010 (age 84 years), La Jolla, CA
Spouse: Margaret Burbidge (m. 1948–2010)
Awards: Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy (1959), Bruce Medal (1999), Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (2007), and more
Doctoral advisor: H.S.W. Massey
Thesis: The interaction between mesons and light atoms (1951)