American astronomer (1920–2013)
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
Herbig–Haro object (HH) 212.[7]
Selected publications
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Further reading
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