What is Geoffrey Burbidge?
'''Geoffrey Burbidge''' (born [[Chipping Norton]], 24 September 1925; died La Jolla, [[California]], 26 January 2010) was an [[England|English]] [[astrophysics|astrophysicist]]. For many years he was [[professor]] at the [[University of California]], [[San Diego]]. In 1957, he published a famous paper, together with three other physicists, about the origin of [[Chemical element|elements]]. Many scientists disagreed with ideas that he had later in his life, because he did not believe in the [[Big Bang]] theory. ==Education and early career== He started to study [[history]] at the [[University of Bristol]], but soon changed to [[physics]] because he could then get financial help from the government ([[World War II]] was on, so science was very important to the government). He went to London and got a [[doctorate]] from [[University College London]] in 1951. He met the [[astronomer]] [[Margaret Peachey]]. He became very interested in [[astronomy]] and he married her in 1948. From then on they always worked together in several places. They worked at [[Harvard]], the [[University of Chicago]] and [[Cambridge University]]. Then Margaret got work at the [[California Institute of Technology]], while Geoffrey worked at the [[Mount Wilson Observatory]] and [[Palomar Observatory]]. They both got jobs at the [[University of California]], [[San Diego]], in 1962. ==The B2FH paper== In 1957 he and his wife, together with [[William Alfred Fowler|William Fowler]], the American physicist, and [[Fred Hoyle]], the British astronomer, wrote a 104-page paper about [[stellar nucleosynthesis]]. The paper became known as the B2FH (because of their [[initial]]s). It talked about nuclear reactions inside stars, showing how these reactions tear apart blocks of [[matter]] and put it together again differently. It was a similar idea to what [[Charles Darwin]] had written about 100 years earlier in the “Origin of Species”, where he had described how creatures had [[evolution|evolved]]. Scientists saw this paper as the mos