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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Geoffrey Burbidge has received more than 66,781 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Geoffrey Burbidge is the 393rd most popular astronomer (down from 372nd in 2019), the 3,328th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,049th in 2019) and the 49th most popular British Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Geoffrey Burbidge ranks 393 out of 531. Before him are Kiyotsugu Hirayama, Ludwig Biermann, Brian Schmidt, William Christie, Tsutomu Seki, and Bart Bok. After him are Jill Tarter, Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin, Mary Ward, Janet Akyüz Mattei, Lutz D. Schmadel, and Hugo von Seeliger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Geoffrey Burbidge ranks 306. Before him are Fritz Laband, Amparo Rivelles, Zoot Sims, Charlie Byrd, Tony Benn, and Nanni Loy. After him are Cara Williams, Tankred Dorst, Carla Del Poggio, Colette Marchand, Antonio Puchades, and Irina Arkhipova. Among people deceased in 2010, Geoffrey Burbidge ranks 244. Before him are Anneliese Rothenberger, Jamie Gillis, Takeshi Shudo, Vitaly Sevastyanov, Walter Rudin, and Robert B. Parker. After him are Lhasa de Sela, Carla Del Poggio, John Wooden, Hans van Mierlo, Nelly Landry, and Irina Arkhipova.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Geoffrey Burbidge ranks 3,328 out of 7,765. Before him are David Morrissey (1964), Edward William Lane (1801), Lance Macklin (1919), Andy Bown (1946), Philip Howard, 13th Earl of Arundel (1557), and Lady Byron (1792). After him are Allan Ramsay (1713), George Chapman (1559), Peter Bonetti (1941), Conleth Hill (1964), Charles Shaughnessy (1955), and Prince Henry, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn (1745).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United Kingdom

Among astronomers born in United Kingdom, Geoffrey Burbidge ranks 49. Before him are Brian G. Marsden (1937), Philibert Jacques Melotte (1880), Sherburne Wesley Burnham (1838), Harry Edwin Wood (1881), Harold Spencer Jones (1890), and William Christie (1845). After him are John Pond (1767), Herbert Hall Turner (1861), Ralph Copeland (1837), Edward Pigott (1753), William Rutter Dawes (1799), and William Henry Smyth (1788).

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