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

Margaret became the first female director of The 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, which 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 The Times via the link below:

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