George Herbig Explained

George Herbig
Birth Date:2 January 1920
Birth Place:Wheeling, West Virginia
Death Place:Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii
Citizenship:United States
Fields:Star formation, interstellar medium
Workplaces:University of Hawaiʻi
Alma Mater:UCLA
University of California, Berkeley (PhD)
Known For:Herbig–Haro objects
Herbig Ae/Be stars
Awards:Helen B. Warner Prize (1955)
Henry Norris Russell Lectureship (1975)
Bruce Medal (1980)

George Howard Herbig (January 2, 1920 – October 12, 2013) was an American astronomer at the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy.[1] He is perhaps best known for his contribution to the discovery of Herbig–Haro objects.[2] [3]

Background

Born in 1920 in Wheeling, West Virginia,[4] 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

Selected publications

References

  1. Web site: The Bruce Medalists: George Howard Herbig . 2010-02-01.
  2. Web site: George Herbig (1920-2013) . AstroWright . 2013-10-13 . 2013-11-03 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131025234622/http://www.personal.psu.edu/jtw13/blogs/astrowright/2013/10/george-herbig-19202013.html . 2013-10-25 .
  3. Reipurth . B.. George Herbig (1920–2013) Astronomer who pioneered studies of young stars. 10.1038/503470a . Nature . 503 . 7477 . 470 . 2013 . 24284724. 2013Natur.503..470R . free .
  4. Book: The Houghton Mifflin Dictionary of Biography. 2003. Houghton Mifflin Company. 9780618252107.
  5. Web site: Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy . . 2010-02-01 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20101222143439/http://www.aas.org/grants/awards.php#warner . 2010-12-22 .
  6. Web site: Henry Norris Russell Lectureship . American Astronomical Society . 2010-02-01 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20101222143439/http://www.aas.org/grants/awards.php#russell . 2010-12-22 .
  7. High-Resolution Spectroscopy of FU Orionis Stars . The Astrophysical Journal . 595 . 1 . 384–411 . 2003ApJ...595..384H. Herbig. G. H.. Petrov . P. P. . Duemmler . R. . 2003 . astro-ph/0306559 . 10.1086/377194 . 119436366 .
  8. The Young Cluster IC 5146 . The Astronomical Journal . 123 . 1 . 304 . 2002AJ....123..304H. Herbig. G. H.. Dahm . S. E. . 2002 . 10.1086/324638 . free .
  9. Herbig . G. H. . Simon . T. . 10.1086/321077 . Barnard's Merope Nebula Revisited: New Observational Results . The Astronomical Journal . 121 . 6 . 3138–3148 . 2001 . 2001AJ....121.3138H. free .

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