Background
BURBIDGE, Eleanor Margaret Peachey Daughter of Stanley John and Marjorie (nee Stott) Peachey.
BURBIDGE, Eleanor Margaret Peachey Daughter of Stanley John and Marjorie (nee Stott) Peachey.
Frances Holland School, London and University College, London.
Assistant Director and acting Director University of London Observatory 1946-1951. Research Fellow, Yerkes Observatory, Harvard College Observatory 1951-1953, California Institute of Technology 1955-1957. Research Fellow and Association, Professor University of Chicago 1957-1962.
Association Research Physicist, University of California, San Diego 1962-1964, Professor since 1961, University Professor since 1984.
Director Royal Greenwich Observatory 1972-1973. Director Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences, University of California, San Diego 1979-1988.
President 1978), American Academy, of Arts and Science, North.A.S., American Association for the Advancement of Science (Fellow 1981, President 1982), American Philosophical Society, Society Royale des Sciences de Liege, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, New York Academy, of Sciences. Fellow, University College, London, Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, Girton College, Cambridge.
Editorial Board Astronomy and Astrophysics 1969-1985. Royal Astronomical Society, American Astronomical Society.
Married Geoffrey Burbidge in 1948.