1919 - 2020
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 175,726 page views. Her biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Margaret Burbidge is the 167th most popular astronomer (down from 109th in 2019), the 1,561st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,017th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular British Astronomer.
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Among astronomers, Margaret Burbidge ranks 167 out of 531. Before her are N. R. Pogson, Henry Draper, Cleomedes, Antonio Abetti, George William Hill, and Wilhelm Beer. After her are Maria Cunitz, Andrea M. Ghez, Michael H. Hart, Auguste Charlois, Abu-Mahmud Khojandi, and Gan De.
1829 - 1891
HPI: 55.56
Rank: 161
1837 - 1882
HPI: 55.54
Rank: 162
110 - 1
HPI: 55.48
Rank: 163
1846 - 1928
HPI: 55.44
Rank: 164
1838 - 1914
HPI: 55.37
Rank: 165
1797 - 1850
HPI: 55.36
Rank: 166
1919 - 2020
HPI: 55.23
Rank: 167
1610 - 1664
HPI: 55.13
Rank: 168
1965 - Present
HPI: 55.13
Rank: 169
1932 - Present
HPI: 55.13
Rank: 170
1864 - 1910
HPI: 55.09
Rank: 171
940 - 1000
HPI: 55.03
Rank: 172
400 BC - 400 BC
HPI: 54.95
Rank: 173
Among people born in 1919, Margaret Burbidge ranks 85. Before her are Frederik Pohl, Christoph Probst, Rubén González, Joop den Uyl, P. F. Strawson, and Ginette Neveu. After her are Hermann Gmeiner, Uta Hagen, Pierre Soulages, Janko Bobetko, José de Jesús Pimiento Rodríguez, and Mitja Ribičič. Among people deceased in 2020, Margaret Burbidge ranks 132. Before her are Mory Kanté, Dana Zátopková, Otto Barić, Ben Cross, Pascal Lissouba, and Peter Sutcliffe. After her are Manolis Glezos, Albert Memmi, Dyanne Thorne, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Paik Sun-yup, and Borys Paton.
1919 - 2013
HPI: 55.87
Rank: 79
1919 - 1943
HPI: 55.76
Rank: 80
1919 - 2003
HPI: 55.72
Rank: 81
1919 - 1987
HPI: 55.41
Rank: 82
1919 - 2006
HPI: 55.37
Rank: 83
1919 - 1949
HPI: 55.23
Rank: 84
1919 - 2020
HPI: 55.23
Rank: 85
1919 - 1986
HPI: 55.14
Rank: 86
1919 - 2004
HPI: 55.11
Rank: 87
1919 - 2022
HPI: 55.09
Rank: 88
1919 - 2003
HPI: 54.99
Rank: 89
1919 - 2019
HPI: 54.92
Rank: 90
1919 - 2013
HPI: 54.86
Rank: 91
1950 - 2020
HPI: 55.69
Rank: 126
1922 - 2020
HPI: 55.65
Rank: 127
1933 - 2020
HPI: 55.48
Rank: 128
1947 - 2020
HPI: 55.42
Rank: 129
1931 - 2020
HPI: 55.42
Rank: 130
1946 - 2020
HPI: 55.37
Rank: 131
1919 - 2020
HPI: 55.23
Rank: 132
1922 - 2020
HPI: 55.22
Rank: 133
1920 - 2020
HPI: 55.16
Rank: 134
1936 - 2020
HPI: 55.03
Rank: 135
1947 - 2020
HPI: 55.03
Rank: 136
1920 - 2020
HPI: 54.97
Rank: 137
1918 - 2020
HPI: 54.95
Rank: 138
Among people born in United Kingdom, Margaret Burbidge ranks 1,561 out of 7,765. Before her are Ronnie O'Sullivan (1975), John Edensor Littlewood (1885), Ally McCoist (1962), Bertram Ramsay (1883), George Shaw (1751), and Hertha Ayrton (1854). After her are Olaf Stapledon (1886), John Smyth (1570), George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (1784), William Auld (1924), William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire (1720), and John Muir (1838).
1975 - Present
HPI: 55.26
Rank: 1,555
1885 - 1977
HPI: 55.25
Rank: 1,556
1962 - Present
HPI: 55.25
Rank: 1,557
1883 - 1945
HPI: 55.24
Rank: 1,558
1751 - 1813
HPI: 55.24
Rank: 1,559
1854 - 1923
HPI: 55.23
Rank: 1,560
1919 - 2020
HPI: 55.23
Rank: 1,561
1886 - 1950
HPI: 55.22
Rank: 1,562
1570 - 1612
HPI: 55.22
Rank: 1,563
1784 - 1860
HPI: 55.21
Rank: 1,564
1924 - 2006
HPI: 55.21
Rank: 1,565
1720 - 1764
HPI: 55.21
Rank: 1,566
1838 - 1914
HPI: 55.20
Rank: 1,567
Among astronomers born in United Kingdom, Margaret Burbidge ranks 22. Before her are Jeremiah Horrocks (1618), Adelard of Bath (1075), William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse (1800), John Russell Hind (1823), Williamina Fleming (1857), and N. R. Pogson (1829). After her are John Bevis (1695), Francis Baily (1774), Edward Walter Maunder (1851), James Dunlop (1793), Edward L. G. Bowell (1943), and Alfred Fowler (1868).
1618 - 1641
HPI: 58.09
Rank: 16
1075 - 1160
HPI: 58.07
Rank: 17
1800 - 1867
HPI: 57.71
Rank: 18
1823 - 1895
HPI: 57.44
Rank: 19
1857 - 1911
HPI: 56.91
Rank: 20
1829 - 1891
HPI: 55.56
Rank: 21
1919 - 2020
HPI: 55.23
Rank: 22
1695 - 1771
HPI: 54.54
Rank: 23
1774 - 1844
HPI: 54.24
Rank: 24
1851 - 1928
HPI: 53.87
Rank: 25
1793 - 1848
HPI: 53.77
Rank: 26
1943 - Present
HPI: 53.59
Rank: 27
1868 - 1940
HPI: 53.29
Rank: 28