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Born | Geoffrey Ronald Burbidge 24 September 1925 Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, U.K. |
Died | 26 January 2010 La Jolla, California, U.S. | (aged 84)
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Fields | Theoretical astrophysics |
Thesis | The interaction between mesons and light atoms (1951) |
Doctoral advisor | H.S.W. Massey |
Website | casswww |
Geoffrey Ronald Burbidge FRS[1] (24 September 1925 – 26 January 2010) was an English astronomy professor and theoretical astrophysicist, most recently at the University of California, San Diego. He was married to astrophysicist Margaret Burbidge[2] and was the second author of the influential B2FH paper which she led.