George Herbig

Template:Short description Template:Infobox scientist George Howard Herbig (January 2, 1920 – October 12, 2013) was an American astronomer at the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy.<ref name=bruce>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He is perhaps best known for his contribution to the discovery of Herbig–Haro objects.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

Background

Born in 1920 in Wheeling, West Virginia,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Herbig received his Doctor of Philosophy in 1948 at the University of California, Berkeley; his dissertation is titled A Study of Variable Stars in Nebulosity.

Career

His specialty was stars at an early stage of evolution (a class of intermediate mass pre–main sequence stars are named Herbig Ae/Be stars after him) and the interstellar medium. He was 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.

Herbig also made prominent contributions to the field of diffuse interstellar band (DIB) research, especially through a series of nine articles published between 1963 and 1995 entitled "The diffuse interstellar bands."

Honors

Awards

• Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy of the American Astronomical Society (1955)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Foreign Scientific Member, Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Heidelberg
• Henry Norris Russell Lectureship of the AAS (1975)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Médaille, Université de Liège (1969)
• Bruce Medal of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (1980)<ref name=bruce />
• Petrie Prize and Lectureship of the Canadian Astronomical Society (1995)

Named after him

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• Asteroid 11754 Herbig
• Herbig Ae/Be stars
• Herbig–Haro objects

Selected publications

• "High-Resolution Spectroscopy of FU Orionis Stars", ApJ 595 (2003) 384–411 <ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
• "The Young Cluster IC 5146", AJ 123 (2002) 304–327 <ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
• "Barnard's Merope Nebula Revisited: New Observational Results", AJ 121 (2001) 3138–3148 <ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
• "The Diffuse Interstellar Bands", Annu. Rev. Astrophys. 33 (1995) 19–73
• "The Unusual Pre-Main-Sequence star VY Tauri", ApJ 360 (1990) 639–649
• "The Structure and Spectrum of R Monocerotis", ApJ 152 (1968) 439
• "The Spectra of Two Nebulous Objects Near NGC 1999", ApJ 113 (1951) 697

References

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Further reading

• Reipurth, Bo. GEORGE HERBIG and Early Stellar Evolution. Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaiʻi, Special Publications No. 1.