George Herbig
George Herbig | |
|---|---|
| Born | January 2, 1920 |
| Died | October 13, 2013 (aged 93) |
| Citizenship | United States citizen |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
| Known for | Herbig-Haro objects, Herbig Ae/Be stars |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Star formation, interstellar medium |
| Institutions | University of Hawaii |
George Howard Herbig (January 2, 1920 – October 13, 2013) was an astronomer at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy.[1] He is perhaps best known for the discovery of Herbig-Haro objects.[2]
Born in 1920 in Wheeling, West Virginia,[3] 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."
Honors
Awards
- Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy of the American Astronomical Society (1955)[4]
- Foreign Scientific Member, Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Heidelberg
- Henry Norris Russell Lectureship of the AAS (1975)[5]
- Médaille, Université de Liège (1969)
- Bruce Medal of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (1980)[1]
- Petrie Prize and Lectureship of the Canadian Astronomical Society (1995)
Named after him
Selected publications
- "High-Resolution Spectroscopy of FU Orionis Stars", ApJ 595 (2003) 384–411 [6]
- "The Young Cluster IC 5146", AJ 123 (2002) 304–327 [7]
- "Barnard's Merope Nebula Revisited: New Observational Results", AJ 121 (2001) 3138–3148 [8]
- "The Diffuse Interstellar Bands", Annu. Rev. Astrophys. 33 (1995) 19–73
- "The Unusual Pre-Main-Sequence star VY Tauri", ApJ 360 (1990) 639–649
- "The Structure and Spectrum of R Monocerotis", ApJ 152 (1968) 439
- "The Spectra of Two Nebulous Objects Near NGC 1999", ApJ 113 (1951) 697
References
- ^ a b "The Bruce Medalists: George Howard Herbig". Retrieved 2010-02-01.
- ^ "Astronomer George Herbig dies at age 93". Astronomy.com. 1920-01-02. Retrieved 2013-10-14.
- ^ [1]
- ^ "Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy". American Astronomical Society. Retrieved 2010-02-01.
- ^ "Henry Norris Russell Lectureship". American Astronomical Society. Retrieved 2010-02-01.
- ^ "High-Resolution Spectroscopy of FU Orionis Stars". Adsabs.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2013-10-14.
- ^ "The Young Cluster IC 5146". Adsabs.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2013-10-14.
- ^ http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=2001AJ....121.3138H&db_key=AST&high=410531704926160