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Margaret Burbidge (12 August 1919–05 April 2020)

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Eleanor Margaret (née Peachey) Burbidge was a five-sigma event, whether you are counting outstanding 20th-century astrophysicists, pioneering women in science, or fascinating people! Here are a few of the details.

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  1. E. Margaret Burbidge, Watcher of the skies, Annual Reviews of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Vol.32, pp.1–36, 1994.

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  2. E. M. Burbidge, G. R. Burbidge, W. A. Fowler, and F. Hoyle, Synthesis of the elements in stars, Reviews of Modern Physics, Vol.29, pp.547–648, 1957.

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  3. Astronomers vary a good deal in what they call things, from the brightest star in a constellation being called Alpha Orionis (for instance) onward to much more obscure. For this source, O = Ohio (for the location of the radio telescope that initially detected and cataloged in Q for the band of right ascension in the sky (from B to Z; OJ 287 is probably the most-studied); 1 for the declination band in the sky (the range is 0 to 90°); and 72 the number of the source in that “box” of right ascension and declination. Special thanks to colleague Aaron Barth, who chased down the original survey from around 1970 to find this out!

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  1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, 4156 Frederick Reines Hall, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

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Virginia Trimble is a native Californian, a graduate of Hollywood High School, UCLA, and Caltech (PhD in Astronomy, 1968), and is currently Professor of Physics and Astronomy at UCI.

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Trimble, V. Margaret Burbidge (12 August 1919–05 April 2020). Reson 27, 309–314 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12045-022-1322-5

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