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Astrophysicist Proved Elements Are Created by Stars

In one of the most sweeping discoveries of astrophysics, Geoffrey Burbidge helped explain the origins of the elements.
Mr. Burbidge, a University of California at San Diego cosmologist who died Tuesday at age 84, helped show how chemical elements are created by stars. A now-classic 1957 scientific paper Mr. Burbidge wrote with his wife, Margaret Burbidge, and two other scientists, was titled "Synthesis of the Elements in Stars."
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UCSD astrophysicist and astronomer Geoffrey Burbidge dies at 84

Geoffrey Burbidge, a renowned British astrophysicist and astronomer at the UCSD who made contributions to our understanding of how elements are formed in stars as well as modern cosmology and radio galaxies, died on Jan. 26 at the Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla after a long illness. He was 84.
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Geoffrey Ronald Burbidge (born September 24, 1925; died January 25, 2010) was a English physics professor in the University of California, San Diego. He was married to Margaret Burbidge. He received his PhD from London in 1951.

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