Scott Tremaine
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Scott Duncan Tremaine (born 1950)[1][2] 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.[3] Tremaine is widely regarded as one of the world's leading astrophysicists[4][5] for his contributions to the theory of solar system and galactic dynamics.[6] Tremaine is the namesake of asteroid 3806 Tremaine.[7][8][9][10] He is credited with coining the name "Kuiper belt"[11]
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[edit] Scientific accomplishments
Tremaine, along with Peter Goldreich, correctly predicted that shepherd moons created Saturn's thin F ring, as well as the thin rings of Uranus in 1979.[12][13][14] The Saturnian moons Prometheus and Pandora were first observed in 1981[15] and shepherding moons were found around Uranus' rings in 1986.[16] Tremaine cowrote the book Galactic Dynamics with James Binney, which is often regarded as the standard reference in the field[1][17][18][19][20] and has been cited more than three thousand times in scholarly publications.[21][22] Tremaine, along with collaborators at the University of Toronto, showed that short period comets originate in the Kuiper belt.[23][24] Tremaine is credited with suggesting that the apparent "double nucleus" of the Andromeda Galaxy was in fact a single ring of old red stars.[25]
[edit] Career
He obtained a bachelor's degree at McMaster University in 1971, and a Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1975.[26] He further received an honorary Ph.D. from McMaster University in 1996.[27] He was an associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1981 to 1985.[28] He became the first director of the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics at the University of Toronto in 1986, a position he held until 1996.[28] He gained the rare distinction of "University Professor" at the University of Toronto in 1995.[29] In 1997, he left CITA and took up a position as a professor at Princeton University, becoming chair of the Astrophysical Sciences department from 1998 to 2006.[1]
Scott Tremaine is currently a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, for which he left Princeton University in 2007, being replaced as department chair by David Spergel[30][31] He has been married to Prof. Marilyn Mantei Tremaine for more than a decade, an expert in human-computer interaction who is the past chair of the SIGCHI section of the Association of Computing Machinery. [32]
[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."[16]
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.[33][34]
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".[35][20]
Tremaine won the 1998 Dirk Brouwer Award which is awarded by the Division of Dynamical Astronomy of the American Astronomical Society[36] "in recognition of his many outstanding contributions to a wide range of dynamical problems in both solar-system and galactic dynamics."[20]
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 [sic] astrophysics, particularly his spectacular success in predicting the properties of planetary ring dynamics and the extraplanetary objects that control them".[37]
[edit] External links
- Scholarly Works by Scott Tremaine from the Astrophysical Data System
- Scott Tremaine's Homepage at the Institute for Advanced Study
[edit] References
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- ^ "Scott Duncan TREMAINE". Canadian Who's Who 1997 edition on the web. University of Toronto Press. http://www.utpress.utoronto.ca/cgi-bin/cw2w3.cgi?p=tougas&t=48217&d=1404.
- ^ "Tremaine Follows Bahcall's Stellar Path at the Institute". Town Topics. http://www.towntopics.com/aug2306/other5.html. Retrieved on 2007-04-09.
- ^ "The Institute Letter". Institute for Advanced Studies. http://www.ias.edu/about/publications/the-institute-letter/. Retrieved on 2007-04-09.
- ^ "Bond awarded Dannie Heineman Prize". University of Toronto. http://www.news.utoronto.ca/bin2/020129b.asp. Retrieved on 2007-04-09.
- ^ "Canadian Asteroids". Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. http://www.srac.ca/education/asteroids.shtml. Retrieved on 2007-04-09.
- ^ "Asteroid 3806 named after eminent Canadian astrophysicist". Discovery Channel. http://exn.ca/Stories/1997/03/04/03.asp. Retrieved on 2007-04-09.
- ^ "Look, up in the Sky". University of Toronto. http://www.news.utoronto.ca/bin/bulletin/march17_97/art1.htm. Retrieved on 2007-04-09.
- ^ "McMaster Times - Spring 1997". http://www.mcmaster.ca/ua/opr/times/spring97/alumalb.htm. Retrieved on 2007-05-28.
- ^ "Asteroids (minor planets) related to UofT people". http://www.astro.utoronto.ca/asteroids.html. Retrieved on 2007-05-28.
- ^ John Davies (2001). Beyond Pluto: Exploring the outer limits of the solar system. Cambridge University Press. pp. 191.
- ^ NASA/JPL/Ron Baalke. "Historical Background of Saturn's Rings". Calvin J. Hamilton. http://www.solarviews.com/eng/saturnbg.htm. Retrieved on 2007-04-09.
- ^ "Chaos Seen in Movement of Ring-Herding Moons of Saturn". NASA/JPL. http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2002-190. Retrieved on 2007-04-09.
- ^ "New Clues Emerge in Mystery of Planetary Rings". New York Times. 1989-06-27. http://partners.nytimes.com/library/national/science/062789sci-nasa-saturn.html. Retrieved on 2007-04-09.
- ^ "Frequently Asked Questions About Saturn's Rings". NASA. http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/saturn/faq.html. Retrieved on 2007-04-09.
- ^ a b "Cosmologist Scott Tremaine receives two honors". Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. http://www.ciar.ca/web/home.nsf/pages/home.0380. Retrieved on 2007-04-09.
- ^ "UofT Asteroids". University of Toronto. http://www.astro.utoronto.ca/asteroids.html#tremaine. Retrieved on 2007-04-09.
- ^ "Binney, J. and Tremaine, S.: Galactic Dynamics.". Princeton University Press. http://press.princeton.edu/titles/2537.html. Retrieved on 2007-04-09.
- ^ "Scott Tremaine". International Center for Scientific Research. http://www.cirs-tm.org/researchers/researchers.php?id=181. Retrieved on 2007-04-09.
- ^ a b c "Tremaine to Receive 1997 Brouwer Award". Harvard University. http://dda.harvard.edu/brouwer_award/brouw97.html. Retrieved on 2007-04-09.
- ^ "Citations for 1987gady.book.....B from the ADS Databases". NASA's Astrophysical Data System. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-ref_query?bibcode=1987gady.book.....B&refs=CITATIONS&db_key=AST. Retrieved on 2007-04-09.
- ^ "Binney:Galactic Dynamics - Google Scholar". http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&client=firefox-a&cites=8438230377879290698. Retrieved on 2007-04-09.
- ^ "Where Comets Come From". Discovery Magazine. http://discovermagazine.com/1995/nov/wherecometscomef583. Retrieved on 2007-04-09.
- ^ KENNETH CHANG (September 12, 2006). "Pluto’s Exotic Playmates". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/glogin?URI=http://gk.nytimes.com/mem/gatekeeper.html&OQ=_rQ3D1Q26URIQ3DhttpQ3AQ2FQ2Fwww.nytimes.comQ2F2006Q2F09Q2F12Q2FscienceQ2FspaceQ2F12belt.htmlQ26OQ51Q3D_rQ513D1Q5126thQ5126emcQ513DthQ26OPQ3D4aaef992Q512FW@XUW)Zb5Q513AZZrHWHwwiWwQ512BWQ5124HW5bQ517EXabXW5vTbXWQ5124HUX!rQ5125KrQ515B!&OP=4be62f24Q2F9lKX9D0tKQ2BQ5Eg9StVQ2BQ3BQ3BDk9Q3ByQ3CtKStKQ5E9dQ2BtKQ20KKQ3BKyQ27StV. Retrieved on 2007-04-09.
- ^ "Hubble Finds Mysterious Disk Of Blue Stars Around A Black Hole". Science Daily. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/09/050921075452.htm. Retrieved on 2007-04-09.
- ^ "Institute for Advanced Study: Faculty and Emeriti: Tremaine". Institute for Advanced Study. http://www.ias.edu/about/faculty-and-emeriti/tremaine. Retrieved on 2007-04-09.
- ^ "Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics". University of Toronto's The Bulletin. http://www.news.utoronto.ca/bin/bulletin/june3_96/awards.htm. Retrieved on 2007-04-09.
- ^ a b "Featured speakers for the CUPC 2003". Canadian Undergraduate Physics Conference. http://www.ugrad.physics.mcgill.ca/~cupc/english/speakers.html#tremaine. Retrieved on 2007-04-09.
- ^ "Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics". University of Toronto Bulletin. http://www.news.utoronto.ca/bin/bulletin/june9_97/awards.htm. Retrieved on 2007-05-30.
- ^ "ASTROPHYSICIST SCOTT TREMAINE JOINS THE FACULTY OF THE INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY". Institute for Advanced Study. http://www.ias.edu/newsroom/announcements/view/tremaine.html. Retrieved on 2007-04-09.
- ^ "Top physicist gains stellar appointment". University of Toronto. http://www.physics.utoronto.ca/news_repository/top-physicist-gains-stellar-appointment/. Retrieved on 2007-04-09.
- ^ "SIGCHI organizers". http://www.sigchi.org/cuu/organizers.html. Retrieved on 2007-05-30.
- ^ "Winners of the Canadian C.S. Beals Award". Canadian Astronomical Society. http://www.cascaeducation.ca/files/cdn_astronomerbeals.html#tremaine. Retrieved on 2007-04-09.
- ^ "Carlyle Smith Beals (1899-1979)". http://www.astro-canada.ca/_en/a2204.html. Retrieved on 2007-04-09.
- ^ "AAS Prizes and Awards". American Astronomical Society. http://www.aas.org/grants/awards.html. Retrieved on 2007-04-09.
- ^ "U. of T. The Bulletin, June 9/97, Faculty of Arts & Science". University of Toronto. http://www.news.utoronto.ca/bin/bulletin/june9_97/awards.htm. Retrieved on 2007-04-09.
- ^ "RSC: The Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada : Rutherford Memorial Medals in Physics". The Royal Society of Canada. http://www.rsc.ca/index.php?page=citations_rutherford&page_id=155&lang_id=1#TOC. Retrieved on 2007-04-09.
