Birthdate: August 12, 1919
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Davenport, Stockport, England
Died: April 5, 2020
Eleanor Margaret Burbidge was a renowned observational astronomer and astrophysicist recognized for her groundbreaking research in stellar nucleosynthesis, galaxy rotation curves, and quasars. She co-authored the influential B2FH paper in the 1950s and played a key role in the development and use of the Faint Object Spectrograph on the Hubble Space Telescope in the 1980s and 1990s. Throughout her career, Burbidge held leadership positions at esteemed institutions, serving as director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory, president of the American Astronomical Society, and president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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