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- Birth nameEleanor Margaret Peachey
- Margaret Burbidge was born on August 12, 1919 in Davenport, Greater Manchester, England, UK. She was married to Geoffrey Burbidge. She died on April 5, 2020 in San Francisco, California, USA.
- SpouseGeoffrey Burbidge(April 2, 1948 - January 26, 2010) (his death, 1 child)
- In 1957, she, her husband, Fred Hoyle, and William Fowler published a paper in the Reviews of Modern Physics which demonstrated how elements are synthesized in the nuclear reactors of stars. In 1983, Fowler received the Nobel Prize in physics for his role in the collaboration.
- Astrophysicist, university professor and author.
- She was the first female director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory in Great Britain, and the first female president of the American Astronomical Society.
- She studied astronomy at University College London, receiving a bachelor's degree and a doctorate.
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