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George HerbigGeorge Howard Herbig (born January 2 1920) is an astronomer at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy. He received his Ph.D in 1948 at the University of California, Berkeley; his dissertation is entitled A Study of Variable Stars in Nebulosity. His specialty is stars at an early stage of evolution and the interstellar medium. He is 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. He has received many awards during a distinguished career, including: - Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy, American Astronomical Society, 1955
- Foreign Scientific Member, Max-Planck-Institut fr Astronomie, Heidelberg
- Henry Norris Russell Lectureship, American Astronomical Society, 1975
- Mdaille, Universit de Lige, 1969
- Catherine Wolfe Bruce Medal, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 1980
- Petrie Prize and Lectureship, Canadian Astronomical Society, 1995
A selection of his publications includes: The asteroid 11754 Herbig is named in his honor. External links Herbig, George Herbig, George
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