George Herbig

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George Herbig
Born(1920-01-02)January 2, 1920
Wheeling, West Virginia
DiedOctober 12, 2013(2013-10-12) (aged 93)
Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii
CitizenshipUnited States citizen
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
Known forHerbig–Haro objects
Herbig Ae/Be stars
Scientific career
FieldsStar formation, interstellar medium
InstitutionsUniversity of Hawaiʻi

George Howard Herbig (January 2, 1920 – October 12, 2013) was an American astronomer at the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy. He is perhaps best known for his contribution to the discovery of Herbig–Haro objects.

Background

Born in 1920 in Wheeling, West Virginia, Herbig received his Doctor of Philosophy in 1948 at the University of California, Berkeley; his dissertation is titled A Study of Variable Stars in Nebulosity.

Career

His specialty was stars at an early stage of evolution (a class of intermediate mass pre–main sequence stars are named Herbig Ae/Be stars after him) and the interstellar medium. He was perhaps best known for his discovery, with Guillermo Haro, of the Herbig–Haro objects; bright patches of nebulosity excited by bipolar outflow from a star being born.

Herbig also made prominent contributions to the field of diffuse interstellar band (DIB) research, especially through a series of nine articles published between 1963 and 1995 entitled "The diffuse interstellar bands."

Honors

Awards

Named after him

Herbig–Haro object (HH) 212.

Selected publications

References

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  3. ^ Reipurth, B. (2013). "George Herbig (1920–2013) Astronomer who pioneered studies of young stars". Nature. 503 (7477): 470. Bibcode:2013Natur.503..470R. doi:10.1038/503470a. PMID 24284724.
  4. ^ The Houghton Mifflin Dictionary of Biography. Houghton Mifflin Company. 2003. ISBN 9780618252107.
  5. ^ "Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy". American Astronomical Society. Archived from the original on 2010-12-22. Retrieved 2010-02-01.
  6. ^ "Henry Norris Russell Lectureship". American Astronomical Society. Archived from the original on 2010-12-22. Retrieved 2010-02-01.
  7. ^ "Outbursts from a newborn star". Retrieved 12 October 2015.
  8. ^ Herbig, G. H.; Petrov, P. P.; Duemmler, R. (2003). "High-Resolution Spectroscopy of FU Orionis Stars". The Astrophysical Journal. 595 (1): 384–411. arXiv:astro-ph/0306559. Bibcode:2003ApJ...595..384H. doi:10.1086/377194. S2CID 119436366.
  9. ^ Herbig, G. H.; Dahm, S. E. (2002). "The Young Cluster IC 5146". The Astronomical Journal. 123 (1): 304. Bibcode:2002AJ....123..304H. doi:10.1086/324638.
  10. ^ Herbig, G. H.; Simon, T. (2001). "Barnard's Merope Nebula Revisited: New Observational Results". The Astronomical Journal. 121 (6): 3138–3148. Bibcode:2001AJ....121.3138H. doi:10.1086/321077.

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