마거릿 버비지

소개

엘리너 마거릿 버비지(Eleanor Margaret Burbidge, 1919년 8월 12일 ~ 2020년 4월 5일)는 영국 출생의 미국의 천체물리학자이다. 독자적 연구와 그리니치 천문대의 감독을 비롯한 다수의 행적 직책을 맡은 것으로 유명하다.

Eleanor Margaret Burbidge, (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. Burbidge was also well known for her work opposing discrimination against women in astronomy while also opposing positive discrimination.