George Herbig
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George Howard Herbig (born January 2 1920) is an astronomer at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy.
He 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 is stars at an early stage of evolution and the interstellar medium. He is 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.
He has received many awards during a distinguished career, including:
- Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy, American Astronomical Society, 1955
- Foreign Scientific Member, Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Heidelberg
- Henry Norris Russell Lectureship, American Astronomical Society, 1975
- Médaille, Université de Liège, 1969
- Catherine Wolfe Bruce Medal, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 1980
- Petrie Prize and Lectureship, Canadian Astronomical Society, 1995
A selection of his publications includes:
- "High-Resolution Spectroscopy of FU Orionis Stars", ApJ 595 (2003) 384–411 [1] (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=2003ApJ...595..384H&db_key=AST&high=410531704925054)
- "The Young Cluster IC 5146", AJ 123 (2002) 304–327 [2] (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=2002AJ....123..304H&db_key=AST&high=410531704926265)
- "Barnard's Merope Nebula Revisited: New Observational Results", AJ 121 (2001) 3138–3148 [3] (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=2001AJ....121.3138H&db_key=AST&high=410531704926160)
- "The Unusual Pre-Main-Sequence star VY Tauri", ApJ 360 (1990) 639–649 (http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/ApJ../0360//0000639.000.html)
- "The Structure and Spectrum of R Monocerotis", ApJ 152 (1968) 439 (http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/ApJ../0152//0000439.000.html)
- "The Spectra of Two Nebulous Objects Near NGC 1999", ApJ 113 (1951) 697 (http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/ApJ../0113//0000697.000.html)
The asteroid 11754 Herbig is named in his honor.
External links
- Bruce Medal page (http://www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/BruceMedalists/Herbig/index.html)