| LC control no. | n 81114111 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Burbidge, E. Margaret |
| Variant(s) | Burbidge, Eleanor Margaret Burbidge, Margaret Peachey, Eleanor Margaret Burbidge, E. Margaret (Eleanor Margaret Peachey), 1919-2020 |
| Other standard no. | 0000000066729743 194958606 Q235712 |
| Associated country | Great Britain United States |
| Associated place | La Jolla (San Diego, Calif.) |
| Birth date | 1919-08-12 |
| Death date | 2020-04-05 |
| Place of birth | Stockport (England) |
| Place of death | San Francisco (Calif.) |
| Field of activity | Astrophysics |
| Affiliation | University of California, San Diego Royal Observatory, Greenwich |
| Profession or occupation | Astrophysicists Astronomers |
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| Found in | Burbidge, G. R. Quasi-stellar objects, 1967: title page (Margaret Burbidge) Info. from 678 field, converted 2012-10-13 (Ph.D., Univ. of London, University College) Wikipedia, July 31, 2015: (Margaret Burbidge; Eleanor Margaret Burbidge (née Peachey), FRS (born August 12, 1919) is a British-born American astrophysicist; 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 (UCSD), where she has worked since 1962; born in Davenport [Stockport, Greater Manchester], England; In 1977, she became a United States citizen) OCLC, July 31, 2015: (access points: Burbidge, E. Margaret, Burbidge, E. Margaret, 1919- , Burbidge, E.M., Burbidge, E. Margaret (Eleanor Margaret Peachey), 1919- ; usage: E. Margaret Burbidge [predominant form]; Margaret Burbidge; E.M. Burbidge) Wikipedia, April 9, 2020 (Margaret Burbidge; Eleanor Margaret Burbidge; British-American observational astronomer and astrophysicist; born 12 August 1919, Davenport, Stockport, UK; died 5 April 2020 (aged 100), San Francisco, California, US) New York times, 7 April 2020 (E. Margaret Burbidge; born Eleanor Margaret Peachey, Aug. 12, 1919, in Davenport, in northwest England; died Sunday [Apr. 5] in San Francisco [Calif.], aged 100; an astro-physicist who made pathbreaking findings about the state of the cosmos, not the least of which was discovering precisely what it entailed to succeed as a woman in a male-dominated universe at mid-century; served as the director of the Royal Observatory, the storied British institution, from 1972 to 1973, the first woman to serve in the role) |
| Associated language | eng |
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