Geoffrey Ronald Burbidge FRS[1] (24 September 1925 – 26 January 2010) was an English astronomy professor and theoretical astrophysicist, most recently at the University of California, San Diego.

He was married to astrophysicist Margaret Burbidge[2] and was the second author of the influential B2FH paper which she led.

Burbidge was born in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, a small market town in the Cotswolds, where he attended grammar school.

[3] He first attended the University of Bristol to study history, but changed to physics, receiving his degree in 1946.

[7][8] In collaboration with American physicist William Fowler and British astronomer Fred Hoyle, he and his wife were co-authors of Synthesis of the Elements in Stars, a fundamental paper on stellar nucleosynthesis published in 1957.