Honors
Awards
- Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy, with her husband (1959)
- Catherine Wolfe Bruce medal of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (1982)
- National Medal of Science (1983)
- Henry Norris Russell Lectureship (1984)
- Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, with her husband (2005)
Named after her
- Asteroid 5490 Burbidge
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