George Herbig
| George Herbig | |
|---|---|
| Born |
January 2, 1920 Wheeling, West Virginia |
| Died | October 12, 2013 (aged 93) Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii |
| Residence | Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii |
| Citizenship | United States citizen |
| Fields | Star formation, interstellar medium |
| Institutions | University of Hawaii |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
| Known for |
Herbig–Haro objects Herbig Ae/Be stars |
George Howard Herbig (January 2, 1920 – October 12, 2013) was an astronomer at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy. He is perhaps best known for the discovery of Herbig–Haro objects.
Born in 1920 in Wheeling, West Virginia, Herbig received his Ph.D in 1948 at the University of California, Berkeley; his dissertation is entitled A Study of Variable Stars in Nebulosity. 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 has 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."
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