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British-born American astrophysicist

Eleanor Margaret Burbidge, FRS (née&#;Peachey; 12&#;August – 5&#;April ) was a British-American observational astronomer and astrophysicist.

In the s, she was one of the founders of stellar nucleosynthesis and was first author of the influential B²FH paper. During the s and s she worked on galaxy rotation curves and quasars, discovering the most distant astronomical object then known.

In the s and s she helped develop and utilise the Faint Object Spectrograph on the Hubble Space Telescope.

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Burbidge was also well known for her work opposing discrimination against women in astronomy.

Burbidge held several leadership and administrative posts, including director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory (–), president of the American Astronomical Society (–), and president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science ().

Burbidge worked at the University of London Observatory, Yerkes Observatory of the University of