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{{Short description|American astronomer (1920–2013)}}
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'''George Howard Herbig''' (January 2, 1920 – October 12, 2013) was an [[astronomer]] at the [[University of Hawaii]] [[Institute for Astronomy]].<ref name=bruce>{{cite web | url = http://www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/BruceMedalists/Herbig/index.html | title = The Bruce Medalists: George Howard Herbig | accessdate = 2010-02-01}}</ref> He is perhaps best known for the discovery of [[Herbig–Haro object]]s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.personal.psu.edu/jtw13/blogs/astrowright/2013/10/george-herbig-19202013.html|title=George Herbig (1920-2013) |publisher=AstroWright |date=2013-10-13 |accessdate=2013-11-03}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Reipurth | first1 = B.| title = [[George Herbig]] (1920–2013) Astronomer who pioneered studies of young stars| doi = 10.1038/503470a | journal = Nature | volume = 503 | issue = 7477 | pages = 470 | year = 2013 | pmid = 24284724| pmc = }}</ref>
'''George Howard Herbig''' (January 2, 1920 – October 12, 2013) was an American [[astronomer]] at the [[University of Hawaiʻi]] [[Institute for Astronomy (Hawaii)|Institute for Astronomy]].<ref name=bruce>{{cite web | url = http://www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/BruceMedalists/Herbig/index.html | title = The Bruce Medalists: George Howard Herbig | access-date = 2010-02-01}}</ref> He is perhaps best known for his contribution to the discovery of [[Herbig–Haro object]]s.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.personal.psu.edu/jtw13/blogs/astrowright/2013/10/george-herbig-19202013.html |title=George Herbig (1920-2013) |publisher=AstroWright |date=2013-10-13 |access-date=2013-11-03 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131025234622/http://www.personal.psu.edu/jtw13/blogs/astrowright/2013/10/george-herbig-19202013.html |archive-date=2013-10-25 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Reipurth | first1 = B.| title = George Herbig (1920–2013) Astronomer who pioneered studies of young stars| doi = 10.1038/503470a | journal = Nature | volume = 503 | issue = 7477 | pages = 470 | year = 2013 | pmid = 24284724|bibcode = 2013Natur.503..470R | doi-access = free }}</ref>


==Background==
==Background==
Born in 1920 in Wheeling, West Virginia,<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=rySr84jox_AC&pg=PA719]</ref> Herbig received his [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D]] in 1948 at the [[University of California, Berkeley]]; his dissertation is entitled ''A Study of [[variable star|Variable Stars]] in Nebulosity''. His specialty was [[star]]s at an early stage of [[stellar evolution|evolution]] (a class of intermediate mass [[pre–main sequence star]]s 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 object]]s; 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."
Born in 1920 in Wheeling, West Virginia,<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rySr84jox_AC&pg=PA719|title=The Houghton Mifflin Dictionary of Biography|year=2003|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Company|isbn=9780618252107}}</ref> Herbig received his [[Doctor of Philosophy]] in 1948 at the [[University of California, Berkeley]]; his dissertation is titled ''A Study of [[variable star|Variable Stars]] in Nebulosity''.
==Career==
His specialty was [[star]]s at an early stage of [[stellar evolution|evolution]] (a class of intermediate mass [[pre–main sequence star]]s 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 object]]s; 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==
==Honors==
'''Awards'''
'''Awards'''
*[[Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy]] of the [[American Astronomical Society]] (1955)<ref>{{cite web | url = http://aas.org/grants/awards.php#warner | title = Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy | publisher = American Astronomical Society | accessdate=2010-02-01}}</ref>
*[[Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy]] of the [[American Astronomical Society]] (1955)<ref>{{cite web | url = http://aas.org/grants/awards.php#warner | title = Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy | publisher = [[American Astronomical Society]] | access-date = 2010-02-01 | url-status=dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101222143439/http://www.aas.org/grants/awards.php#warner | archive-date = 2010-12-22 }}</ref>
*Foreign Scientific Member, [[Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie]], Heidelberg
*Foreign Scientific Member, [[Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie]], Heidelberg
*[[Henry Norris Russell Lectureship]] of the AAS (1975)<ref>{{cite web | url = http://aas.org/grants/awards.php#russell | title = Henry Norris Russell Lectureship | publisher = American Astronomical Society | accessdate=2010-02-01}}</ref>
*[[Henry Norris Russell Lectureship]] of the AAS (1975)<ref>{{cite web | url = http://aas.org/grants/awards.php#russell | title = Henry Norris Russell Lectureship | publisher = American Astronomical Society | access-date = 2010-02-01 | url-status=dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101222143439/http://www.aas.org/grants/awards.php#russell | archive-date = 2010-12-22 }}</ref>
*Médaille, [[Université de Liège]] (1969)
*Médaille, [[Université de Liège]] (1969)
*[[Bruce Medal]] of the [[Astronomical Society of the Pacific]] (1980)<ref name=bruce />
*[[Bruce Medal]] of the [[Astronomical Society of the Pacific]] (1980)<ref name=bruce />
*Petrie Prize and Lectureship of the [[Canadian Astronomical Society]] (1995)
*Petrie Prize and Lectureship of the [[Canadian Astronomical Society]] (1995)
'''Named after him'''
'''Named after him'''
[[File:Herbig-Haro 212 jets.jpg|thumb|[[Herbig–Haro object]] (HH) 212.<ref>{{cite web|title=Outbursts from a newborn star|url=http://www.eso.org/public/images/potw1541a/|access-date=12 October 2015}}</ref>]]
*[[Asteroid]] [[11754 Herbig]]
*[[Asteroid]] [[11754 Herbig]]
*[[Herbig Ae/Be stars]]
*[[Herbig Ae/Be stars]]
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==Selected publications==
==Selected publications==
*"High-Resolution Spectroscopy of [[FU Orionis Stars]]", ApJ '''595''' (2003) 384&ndash;411 <ref>{{cite web|url=http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=2003ApJ...595..384H&amp;db_key=AST&amp;high=410531704925054 |title=High-Resolution Spectroscopy of FU Orionis Stars |publisher=Adsabs.harvard.edu |date= |accessdate=2013-10-14}}</ref>
*"High-Resolution Spectroscopy of [[FU Orionis Stars]]", ApJ '''595''' (2003) 384&ndash;411 <ref>{{cite journal|title=High-Resolution Spectroscopy of FU Orionis Stars |journal=The Astrophysical Journal |volume=595 |issue=1 |pages=384–411 |bibcode = 2003ApJ...595..384H|last1 = Herbig|first1 = G. H.|last2=Petrov |first2=P. P. |last3=Duemmler |first3=R. |year=2003 |arxiv=astro-ph/0306559 |doi=10.1086/377194 |s2cid=119436366 }}</ref>
*"The Young Cluster [[IC 5146]]", AJ '''123''' (2002) 304&ndash;327 <ref>{{cite web|url=http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=2002AJ....123..304H&amp;db_key=AST&amp;high=410531704926265 |title=The Young Cluster IC 5146 |publisher=Adsabs.harvard.edu |date= |accessdate=2013-10-14}}</ref>
*"The Young Cluster [[IC 5146]]", AJ '''123''' (2002) 304&ndash;327 <ref>{{cite journal|title=The Young Cluster IC 5146 |journal=The Astronomical Journal |volume=123 |issue=1 |pages=304 |bibcode = 2002AJ....123..304H|last1 = Herbig|first1 = G. H.|last2=Dahm |first2=S. E. |year=2002 |doi=10.1086/324638 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
*"Barnard's Merope Nebula Revisited: New Observational Results", AJ '''121''' (2001) 3138&ndash;3148 <ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Herbig | first1 = G. H. | last2 = Simon | first2 = T. | doi = 10.1086/321077 | title = Barnard's Merope Nebula Revisited: New Observational Results | journal = The Astronomical Journal | volume = 121 | issue = 6 | pages = 3138 | year = 2001 | pmid = | pmc = }}</ref>
*"Barnard's Merope Nebula Revisited: New Observational Results", AJ '''121''' (2001) 3138&ndash;3148 <ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Herbig | first1 = G. H. | last2 = Simon | first2 = T. | doi = 10.1086/321077 | title = Barnard's Merope Nebula Revisited: New Observational Results | journal = The Astronomical Journal | volume = 121 | issue = 6 | pages = 3138–3148 | year = 2001 | bibcode=2001AJ....121.3138H| doi-access = free }}</ref>
*"The [[Diffuse Interstellar Bands]]", [http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev.aa.33.090195.000315 Annu. Rev. Astrophys. '''33''' (1995) 19&ndash;73]
*"The [[Diffuse Interstellar Bands]]", [https://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev.aa.33.090195.000315 Annu. Rev. Astrophys. '''33''' (1995) 19&ndash;73]
*"The Unusual [[pre-main-sequence star|Pre-Main-Sequence star]] [[VY Tauri]]", [http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/ApJ../0360//0000639.000.html ApJ '''360''' (1990) 639&ndash;649]
*"The Unusual [[pre-main-sequence star|Pre-Main-Sequence star]] [[VY Tauri]]", [http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/ApJ../0360//0000639.000.html ApJ '''360''' (1990) 639&ndash;649]
*"The Structure and Spectrum of [[R Monocerotis]]", [http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/ApJ../0152//0000439.000.html ApJ '''152''' (1968) 439]
*"The Structure and Spectrum of [[R Monocerotis]]", [http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/ApJ../0152//0000439.000.html ApJ '''152''' (1968) 439]
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==References==
==References==
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==Further reading==
*Reipurth, Bo. [http://ifa.hawaii.edu/SP1/ GEORGE HERBIG and Early Stellar Evolution]. Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaiʻi, Special Publications No. 1.


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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
Alma materUCLA
University of California, Berkeley (PhD)
Known forHerbig–Haro objects
Herbig Ae/Be stars
AwardsHelen B. Warner Prize (1955)
Henry Norris Russell Lectureship (1975)
Bruce Medal (1980)
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.[1] He is perhaps best known for his contribution to the discovery of Herbig–Haro objects.[2][3]

Background

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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

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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

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Awards

Named after him

Herbig–Haro object (HH) 212.[7]

Selected publications

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References

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  1. ^ a b "The Bruce Medalists: George Howard Herbig". Retrieved 2010-02-01.
  2. ^ "George Herbig (1920-2013)". AstroWright. 2013-10-13. Archived from the original on 2013-10-25. Retrieved 2013-11-03.
  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.

Further reading

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