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Geoffrey Ronald Burbidge | |
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| Born | September 24, 1925 |
| Died | January 26, 2010 (aged 84) |
| Residence | La Jolla, CA, United States |
| Nationality | British / USA |
| Known for | Big Bang |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Professor of Physics, Astrophysicist |
Geoffrey Ronald Burbidge is a British-American physics professor in the University of California, San Diego. He is married to Margaret Burbidge.
In 1957 he and his wife were co-authors, together with Fred Hoyle, the British astronomer, and William Fowler, the American physicist, of a famous paper on stellar nucleosynthesis, which was referred to as the B?FH paper, after the initials of the surnames of the four authors. Burbidge is known mostly for his alternative cosmology theory, which contradicts the Big Bang theory.
According to Burbidge, the universe is oscillatory and as such expands and contracts periodically over infinite time. This theory, due to its controversial nature, has brought a certain amount of fame (or even infamy) to Burbidge. He was the Director of Kitt Peak National Observatory from 1978 to 1984.
Abstracts
- 2001 - "Quasi-Steady State Cosmology" (Read in full)
Books
- 2008 - "Facts and Speculations in Cosmology" (Read in full)
- 2000/2005 - "A Different Approach to Cosmology: From a Static Universe through the Big Bang towards Reality" (Read in full)
Media
- 2004 - Universe - The Cosmology Quest (Video Movie)
- 2004 - The Big Bang Never Happened (Video Documentary)
- 2004 - The Big Bang Never Happened (Video Movie)
- 2004 - The Big Bang Never Happened (Video Movie)
- 2004 - The Big Bang Never Happened (Video Movie)
- 2004 - The Big Bang Never Happened (Video Movie)
- 2004 - The Big Bang Never Happened (Video Movie)
- 2004 - The Big Bang Never Happened (Video Movie)
- 2004 - The Big Bang Never Happened (Video Movie)