George Herbig
George 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 (well known type of intermediate mass Herbig Ae/Be stars) 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. Herbig has also made prominent contributions to the field of diffuse interstellar band (DIB) research, especially through a series of nine articles published between 1963 and 1993 entitled "The diffuse interstellar bands."
Honors
Awards
- Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy of the American Astronomical Society (1955)
- Foreign Scientific Member, Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Heidelberg
- Henry Norris Russell Lectureship of the AAS (1975)
- Médaille, Université de Liège (1969)
- Bruce Medal of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (1980)
- Petrie Prize and Lectureship of the Canadian Astronomical Society (1995)
Named after him
Selected publications
- "High-Resolution Spectroscopy of FU Orionis Stars", ApJ 595 (2003) 384–411 [1]
- "The Young Cluster IC 5146", AJ 123 (2002) 304–327 [2]
- "Barnard's Merope Nebula Revisited: New Observational Results", AJ 121 (2001) 3138–3148 [3]
- "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