BURBIDGE, MARGARET

astronomer (1919 - )

She has been a president of the American Astronomical Society and Director of the Greenwich Royal Observatory. She was the first women who is an astronomer to be elected to the National Academy of Sciences. In 1957 she, along with her colleagues Geoffrey Burbidge, Hoyle, and Fowler, published the famous result that all of the elements except the very lightest are produced by nuclear processes inside stars.

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