FHS alumna Professor Margaret Burbidge has died aged 100 years. She is most notable for her prolific career in astronomy.

Margaret became the first female director of Royal Greenwich Observatory in 1972 and was also involved in planning the Hubble Space Telescope. Her academic achievements include co-authoring a landmark paper on astronomy which was published in the Reviews of Modern Physics and described how chemical elements are created from hydrogen in the stars. She died after a fall on 5th April 2020.

Her obituary can be read in both The Times and the Guardian via the links below:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/apr/22/margaret-burbidge-obituary

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/professor-margaret-burbidge-obituary-rwjv05328