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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Margaret Burbidge has received more than 188,108 page views. Her biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Margaret Burbidge is the 179th most popular astronomer (down from 167th in 2019), the 1,524th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,556th in 2019) and the 25th most popular British Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Margaret Burbidge ranks 179 out of 644. Before her are Otto Wilhelm von Struve, Tobias Mayer, Gan De, Peter van de Kamp, Oskar Backlund, and Maria Cunitz. After her are Jacobus Kapteyn, Lyudmila Chernykh, Jean Chacornac, Seleucus of Seleucia, William Henry Pickering, and N. R. Pogson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Margaret Burbidge ranks 87. Before her are Frederik Pohl, Mario Bunge, Janko Bobetko, Ernst Barkmann, Marina Ginestà, and Hermann Gmeiner. After her are Edoardo Mangiarotti, Ginette Neveu, Amir-Abbas Hoveyda, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Teruo Nakamura, and Amrita Pritam. Among people deceased in 2020, Margaret Burbidge ranks 136. Before her are Amadeo Carrizo, Philippe Nahon, Vera Lynn, Albert Memmi, Ivry Gitlis, and Gene Deitch. After her are Sergei Khrushchev, Jean Kennedy Smith, Dana Zátopková, Amfilohije Radović, Ben Cross, and Georg Ratzinger.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Margaret Burbidge ranks 1,524 out of 8,785. Before her are Robert Powell (1944), Oswald of Northumbria (604), Rosamund Pike (1979), Trevor Horn (1949), William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire (1720), and John Martin (1789). After her are Roger Williamson (1948), George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle (1608), Jack Phillips (1887), Algernon Blackwood (1869), Kay Parker (1944), and Louise d'Orléans (1869).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United Kingdom

Among astronomers born in United Kingdom, Margaret Burbidge ranks 25. Before her are John Russell Hind (1823), Edward Walter Maunder (1851), James Glaisher (1809), Norman Lockyer (1836), Williamina Fleming (1857), and William Robert Brooks (1844). After her are N. R. Pogson (1829), Edward L. G. Bowell (1943), Francis Baily (1774), Jeremiah Horrocks (1618), James Ferguson (1797), and David Gill (1843).

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