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 (a class of intermediate mass pre-main sequence stars are named Herbig Ae/Be stars after him) 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 1995 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
*Asteroid 11754 Herbig
*Herbig Ae/Be stars
*Herbig-Haro objects

elected publications

*"High-Resolution Spectroscopy of FU Orionis Stars", ApJ 595 (2003) 384–411 [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=2003ApJ...595..384H&db_key=AST&high=410531704925054]
*"The Young Cluster IC 5146", AJ 123 (2002) 304–327 [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=2002AJ....123..304H&db_key=AST&high=410531704926265]
*"Barnard's Merope Nebula Revisited: New Observational Results", AJ 121 (2001) 3138–3148 [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=2001AJ....121.3138H&db_key=AST&high=410531704926160]
*"The Diffuse Interstellar Bands", [http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev.aa.33.090195.000315 Annu. Rev. Astrophys. 33 (1995) 19–73]
*"The Unusual Pre-Main-Sequence star VY Tauri", [http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/ApJ../0360//0000639.000.html ApJ 360 (1990) 639–649]
*"The Structure and Spectrum of R Monocerotis", [http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/ApJ../0152//0000439.000.html ApJ 152 (1968) 439]
*"The Spectra of Two Nebulous Objects Near NGC 1999", [http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/ApJ../0113//0000697.000.html ApJ 113 (1951) 697]

External links

* [http://www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/BruceMedalists/Herbig/index.html Bruce Medal page]