Scott Tremaine
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Scott Tremaine (b. 1950)[1]is a Canadian-born Astrophysicist. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of London, the Royal Society of Canada and the National Academy of Sciences[2] Tremaine is widely regarded as one of the world's most eminant scientists[3][4] for his contributions to the theory of solar system and galactic dynamics.[5] Tremaine, along with Peter Goldreich, correctly predicted that the thin rings around Uranus were created by shepherd moons in 1979.[6][7][8] These moons Prometheus and Pandora were first observed in 1981.[9] Tremaine cowrote the book Galactic Dynamics with James Binney, which is often regarded as the standard reference in the field[1][10][11][12] and has been cited more than three thousand times in scholarly publications.[13][14] Tremaine showed, along with collaboraters at the University of Toronto showed that short period comets originate in the Kuiper belt.[15][16] Tremaine is credited with suggesting that the apparent "double nucleus" of the galaxy was in fact a single ring of old red stars.[17]
[edit] Career
He obtained a bachelor's degree at McMaster University in 1971, and a Ph.D. from Princton University in 1975.[18] He further received an honourary Ph.D. from McMaster University in 1996.[19] He was an associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1981 to 1985. He became the first director of the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics in 1986, a position he held until 1996.[20] In 1997, he left CITA and took up a position as a professor at Princton University.
He is currently a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study and chair of the Department of Astrophysical Sciences at Princton University, a position he has held since 1998.[21][22]
[edit] Awards and Honours
Tremaine was awarded the 1997 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics for "diverse and insightful applications of dynamics to planets, rings, comets, galaxies and the universe."[23]
Tremaine won the C.S. Beals Award from the Canadian Astronomical Society which is awarded for outstanding research to a Canadian astronomer or an astronomer working in Canada.[24][25]
Tremaine won the 1983 Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy given by the American Astronomical Society in recognition of "his many outstanding contributions to a wide range of dynamical problems in both solar-system and galactic dynamics".[26][27]
Tremaine won the 1998 Dirk Brouwer Award which is awarded by the Division of Dynmaical Astronomy of the American Astronomical Society.[28]
Tremaine was awarded the 1990 Rutherford Memorial Medal in Physics by the Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada for "his outstanding contributions to the field to astrophysics, particularly his spectacular success in predicting the properties of planetary ring dynamics and the extraplanetary objects that control them".[29]
Tremaine is the namesake of asteroid 3806 Tremaine.[30][31]
[edit] References
- ^ a b Scott Duncan Tremaine (1950- ). Virtual Museum of Canada.
- ^ Tremaine Follows Bahcall's Stellar Path at the Institute. Town Topics.
- ^ The Institute Letter. Institute for Advanced Studies.
- ^ Bond awarded Dannie Heineman Prize. University of Toronto.
- ^ Canadian Asteroids. Royal Astronomical Society of Canada.
- ^ NASA/JPL/Ron Baalke. Historical Background of Saturn's Rings. Calvin J. Hamilton.
- ^ Chaos Seen in Movement of Ring-Herding Moons of Saturn. NASA/JPL.
- ^ New Clues Emerge in Mystery of Planetary Rings. New York Times.
- ^ Frequently Asked Questions About Saturn's Rings. NASA.
- ^ UofT Asteroids. University of Toronto.
- ^ Binney, J. and Tremaine, S.: Galactic Dynamics.. Princton University Press.
- ^ Scott Tremaine. International Center for Scientific Research.
- ^ Citations for 1987gady.book.....B from the ADS Databases. NASA's Astrophysical Data System.
- ^ Binney:Galactic Dynamics - Google Scholar.
- ^ Where Comets Come From. Discovery Magazine.
- ^ KENNETH CHANG (September 12th, 2006). Pluto’s Exotic Playmates. New York Timse.
- ^ {cite web|url = http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/09/050921075452.htm|title = Hubble Finds Mysterious Disk Of Blue Stars Around A Black Hole|publisher = Science Daily}}
- ^ Institute for Advanced Study: Faculty and Emeriti: Tremaine. Institute for Advanced Study.
- ^ Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics. University of Toronto's The Bulletin.
- ^ Featured speakers for the CUPC 2003. Canadian Undergraduate Physics Conference.
- ^ ASTROPHYSICIST SCOTT TREMAINE JOINS THE FACULTY OF THE INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY. Institute for Advanced Study.
- ^ Top physicist gains stellar appointment. University of Toronto.
- ^ Cosmologist Scott Tremaine receives two honors. Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.
- ^ Winners of the Canadian C.S. Beals Award. Canadian Astronomical Society.
- ^ Carlyle Smith Beals (1899-1979).
- ^ AAS Prizes and Awards. American Astronomical Society.
- ^ Tremaine to Receive 1997 Brouwer Award. Harvard University.
- ^ U. of T. The Bulletin, June 9/97, Faculty of Arts & Science. University of Toronto.
- ^ RSC: The Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada : Rutherford Memorial Medals in Physics. The Royal Society of Canada.
- ^ Asteroid 3806 named after eminent Canadian astrophysicis. Discovery Channel.
- ^ Look, up in the Sky. University of Toronto.
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