The Bruce Medalists: George Herbig

<header1><a href="../Intro.html" target="_self" style="color: #8c23c0;">The Bruce Medalists</a></header1> <p>  </p> <table> <tr> <td width = "33%"> </td> <td width = "34%" align="center"><a href="herbig.jpg"><img src="herbigSml.jpg" alt="portrait" height="114" width="91" border="2"></a></td> <td valign="middle"><small>Photo courtesy Prof. Herbig and University of California, Santa Cruz</small></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="3" align="center"><header2>George Howard Herbig</header2></td> </tr> <tr> <td width = "33%"><b>2 January 1920</b></td> <td align="center"><b>1980 Bruce Medalist</b></td> <td align="right"><b>12 October 2013</b></td> </tr> </table> <p>George Herbig earned his bachelor’s degree at UCLA and his Ph.D. at the <a href="http://www.berkeley.edu/about/history/">University of California at Berkeley</a>. His thesis research on T Tauri stars was performed at the <a href="http://www.ucolick.org/">Lick Observatory</a>. In 1948, he joined the staff of Lick, which became part of the <a href="http://www.ucsc.edu/public/index.htm">University of California, Santa Cruz</a> in the late 1960s. He designed the coudé spectrograph for the <a href="http://www.ucolick.org/public/telescopes/shane.html">Shane 3-m telescope</a> at Lick. In 1988 he moved to the <a href="http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/ifa/about_ifa.htm">University of Hawaii</a>, where he investigated diffuse interstellar bands found in the spectra of stars and very faint young stars in Galactic clusters. Herbig was known for his spectroscopic studies of young stars, star formation, and the interstellar medium. He found and investigated many H-alpha emission objects, T Tauri stars, and peculiar stars. He and Guillermo Haro independently discovered the <a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap970619.html">Herbig-Haro objects</a>, gas clouds associated with young stars. Herbig showed that lithium abundance is correlated with age in young stars, and he investigated rotation rates of stars of different spectral class. He continued research until the end of his life, publishing two articles at age ninety-two. His doctoral students included noted astronomers <a href="../kraft/index.html">Robert P. Kraft</a>, Elizabeth Roemer, George Preston, Leonard Kuhi, Ann Boesgaard, Beverly Lynds, Robert Zappala, William Alschuler, N. Kameswara Rao, Douglas Duncan, and David Soderblom. <p><header3>Personal Web Page</header3><br> <a href="http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/users/herbig/default/herbig.html">At the University of Hawaii</a> </p> <p><header3>Presentation of Bruce medal</header3><br> <i>Mercury</i> <b>9</b>, 159 (1980). </p> <p><header3>Other awards</header3><br> American Astronomical Society, <a href="http://aas.org/prizes/helen_b_warner_prize_for_astronomy">Helen B. Warner Prize</a>, 1955; <a href="http://aas.org/prizes/henry_norris_russell_lectureship">Henry Norris Russell Lectureship</a>, 1975. </p> <p><header3>Biographical materials</header3><br> Nakaso, Dan, <a href="http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2009/Aug/16/ln/hawaii908160332.html">Honolulu Advertiser, 16 August 2009</a><br> Tenn, Joseph S., <i><a href="http://www.springerreference.com/docs/html/chapterdbid/331922.html">Biographical Encylopedia of Astronomers</a></i> </p> <p><header3>Obituaries</header3><br> <a href="http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/info/press-releases/Herbig/">Institute of Astronomy, University of Hawaii at Manoa</a><br> </p> <p><header3>Portraits</header3><br> <a href="http://photos.aip.org/">AIP Center for History of Physics</a><br> <a href="http://photofiles.lib.uchicago.edu/db.xqy?keywords=herbig">University of Chicago Archival Photographic Files</a><br> Institute of Astronomy, University of Hawaii at Manoa, <a href="http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/info/press-releases/Herbig/">photo by Karen Teramura</a> </p> <p><header3>Named after him</header3><br> <a href="http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/MPNames.html">Minor Planet #11754 Herbig</a><br> <a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap970619.html">Herbig-Haro objects</a> (with <a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/620/000204008/">Guillermo Haro</a>)<br> <a href="http://www.aavso.org/vstar/vsots/">Herbig Ae and Be (HAEBE) stars</a> </p> <p><header3><a href="HerbigRefs.html" target="_self">More references</a></header3></p> <p> <center> <b><a href="../index.html" target="_parent">The Bruce Medalists</a></b> </center> </p> <table> <tr> <td valign="TOP"><font size="-1">Please send comments, additions, corrections, and questions to<br> <a href="MAILTO:joe.tenn@sonoma.edu"> joe.tenn@sonoma.edu</a></td><br> <td align="RIGHT" valign="TOP"><font size="-1"><i> <a href="http://www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/people/faculty/tenn/">JST</a> </i><br> <a href="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html">2013-10-14</a></td> </tr> </table>