| George Herbig AKA George Howard Herbig Born: 2-Jan-1920
Birthplace: Wheeling, WV
Died: 12-Oct-2013
Location of death: Honolulu, HI
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Astronomer, Physicist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Herbig-Haro objects Astronomer George Herbig discovered the first "newborn" stars in the region of the Orion nebula. His studies showed areas of increased nebulosity due to bipolar outflow as a star is born, a phenomenon also described independently by Guillermo Haro, and now called Herbig-Haro or HH objects. Father: Georg Adalbert Herbig (tailor)
Mother: Glenna Herbig
University: BS, University of California at Los Angeles (1943)
University: PhD Astronomy, University of California at Berkeley (1948)
Scholar: Lick Observatory, University of California at Santa Cruz (1948-88)
Teacher: Astronomy, University of California at Santa Cruz (1948-66)
Professor: Astronomy, University of California at Santa Cruz (1966-88)
Professor: Astronomy, University of Hawaii (1988-)
Bruce Medal 1980
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Astronomical Society
National Academy of Sciences
Asteroid Namesake 11754 Herbig
German Ancestry
Polish Ancestry
Author of books:
Parallaxes and Proper Motions of Prototypes of Astrophysically Interesting Classes of Stars (1997)
Historical Introduction to Star Formation (2002)
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