Quo Fuit places 4 dated presences for Margaret Burbidge across 4 places, from 1921 to 2020.
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Eleanor Margaret Burbidge, (12 August 1919 – 5 April 2020) was a British-American observational astronomer and astrophysicist.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Margaret Burbidge was documented, and when
1921year
Londonattested“A few years after Margaret was born, Stanley obtained a patent related to the vulcanisation of rubber, which made enough money for the family to move to London in 1921 where he set up his own industrial chemistry laboratory.”source: Wikipedia: Margaret Burbidge
1939year
University College Londonattested“Burbidge studied at University College London (UCL), where she received an undergraduate degree in 1939 and a Ph.D.”source: Wikipedia: Margaret Burbidge
1953year
University of Cambridgeattested“She returned to the UK in 1953, when Margaret and her husband Geoffrey Burbidge were invited to work with William Alfred Fowler and Fred Hoyle at the University of Cambridge.”source: Wikipedia: Margaret Burbidge
5 April 2020exact date
San Franciscoattested“Margaret Burbidge died on 5 April 2020, in San Francisco at age 100 after a fall.”source: Wikipedia: Margaret Burbidge
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1951year
University of Chicagomentioned“In 1951 she took a position at the University of Chicago's Yerkes Observatory, Wisconsin, her first job in the United States.”source: Wikipedia: Margaret Burbidge
1951year
United Statesmentioned“In 1951 she took a position at the University of Chicago's Yerkes Observatory, Wisconsin, her first job in the United States.”source: Wikipedia: Margaret Burbidge
1972year
UCSDmentioned“In 1972 Burbidge became director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory (RGO), on secondment from UCSD.”source: Wikipedia: Margaret Burbidge
1974year
Herstmonceux Castlementioned“Burbidge left the RGO in 1974, fifteen months after joining, due to controversy over moving the Isaac Newton Telescope from RGO headquarters at Herstmonceux Castle to Roque de los Muchachos Observatory in the Canary Islands.”source: Wikipedia: Margaret Burbidge
1974year
Canary Islandsmentioned“Burbidge left the RGO in 1974, fifteen months after joining, due to controversy over moving the Isaac Newton Telescope from RGO headquarters at Herstmonceux Castle to Roque de los Muchachos Observatory in the Canary Islands.”source: Wikipedia: Margaret Burbidge
1990year
UCSDmentioned“At UCSD she helped develop the Faint Object Spectrograph for the Hubble Space Telescope, which launched in 1990.”source: Wikipedia: Margaret Burbidge
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