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British-born American astrophysicist

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.

In the 1980s and 1990s she helped develop and utilise the Faint Object Spectrograph on the Hubble Space Telescope.

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On September 15, , his first child, a daughter, Joan, was baptised in the church of Stratford.

In it, she discusses her childhood, family, education, some of the struggles she faced as a woman in her field, and details some of the.

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Burbidge first became aware of the stars in at the age of four.

Burbidge was also well known for her work opposing discrimination against women in astronomy.

Burbidge held several leadership and administrative posts, including director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory (1973–1975), president of the American Astronomical Society (1976–1978), and president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1983).

Burbidge worked at the University of L