Awards & Winners

Margaret Burbidge

Date of Birth 12-August-1919
Place of Birth Davenport, Greater Manchester
(United Kingdom)
Nationality United Kingdom, United States of America
Profession Astronomer, Astrophysicist
Eleanor Margaret Burbidge, FRS is a British-born American astrophysicist, noted for original research and holding many administrative posts, including director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory. During her career, she served at the University of London Observatory, Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago, Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, England, the California Institute of Technology, and, from 1979 to 1988, was first director of the Center for Astronomy and Space Sciences at the University of California at San Diego, where she has worked since 1962.

Awards by Margaret Burbidge

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1988


Albert Einstein World Award of Science
(For her fundamental contributions to several areas of astrophysics, namely: the stellar composition of stars, spectroscopy of normal galaxies, properties, rotations, and masses of stars and the physical properties, energy sources and radiation mechanisms of quasars.)

1983


National Medal of Science for Physical Science
(For leadership in observational astronomy. Her spectroscopic investigations have provided crucial information about the chemical composition of stars and the nature of quasistellar objects.)