Scott Tremaine Explained

Scott Tremaine
Birth Name:Scott Duncan Tremaine
Birth Place:Toronto, Ontario
Birth Date:1950
Citizenship:Canada
Nationality:Canadian
Field:Astrophysics
Alma Mater:McMaster University
Princeton University (PhD)
Spouse:Marilyn Tremaine

Scott Duncan Tremaine (born 1950)[1] [2] is a Canadian-born astrophysicist. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of London,[3] the Royal Society of Canada and the National Academy of Sciences.[4] Tremaine is widely regarded as one of the world's leading astrophysicists[5] [6] for his contributions to the theory of Solar System and galactic dynamics.[7] Tremaine is the namesake of asteroid 3806 Tremaine.[8] [9] [10] [11] He is credited with coining the name "Kuiper belt".[12]

Career

He obtained a bachelor's degree at McMaster University in 1971, and a PhD from Princeton University in 1975.[13] He further received an honorary PhD from McMaster University in 1996.[14] He was an associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1981 to 1985.[15] 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. He gained the rare distinction of "University Professor" at the University of Toronto in 1995.[16] 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.

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.[17] [18] He has been married to Prof. Marilyn Mantei Tremaine for more than two decades, an expert in human-computer interaction who is the past chair of the SIGCHI section of the Association for Computing Machinery.[19]

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.[20] [21] [22] The Saturnian moons Prometheus and Pandora were first observed in 1981[23] and shepherding moons were found around Uranus' rings in 1986.[24] Tremaine cowrote the book Galactic Dynamics with James Binney, which is often regarded as the standard reference in the field[1] [25] [26] [27] [28] and has been cited more than three thousand times in scholarly publications.[29] [30] Tremaine, along with collaborators at the University of Toronto, showed that short period comets originate in the Kuiper belt.[31] [32] Tremaine is credited with suggesting that the apparent "double nucleus" of the Andromeda Galaxy was in fact a single ring of old red stars.[33]

Awards and honours

In 2020, he was elected a Legacy Fellow of the American Astronomical Society. [34]

In 2013, he won the Tomalla Foundation Prize for his work on gravitational dynamics.

In 2010, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Toronto "in recognition of his scholarly contributions to the field of astrophysics, and his administrative leadership in support of Canadian and international science".[35]

In 2005, he won the Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

In 2002, he was elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences.

In 1999, Tremaine also received an honorary Doctor of Science degree from St. Mary's University.

In 1998, he won the 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."

In 1997, he was awarded the Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics for "diverse and insightful applications of dynamics to planets, rings, comets, galaxies and the universe."

In 1996, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science award by McMaster University.

In 1994, Tremaine became a Fellow of the Royal Society of London and also of the Royal Society of Canada.

In 1990, he was awarded the 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".[37]

In 1990, he 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.[38] [39]

In 1983, he won the 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".[40]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Scott Duncan Tremaine (1950–). Virtual Museum of Canada. 9 April 2007.
  2. Web site: Scott Duncan TREMAINE. Canadian Who's Who 1997 edition on the web. University of Toronto Press.
  3. Web site: Lists of Royal Society Fellows 1660–2007 . The Royal Society . 18 July 2010 . London . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100324095152/http://royalsociety.org/Lists-of-Royal-Society-Fellows-1660-2007/ . 24 March 2010 .
  4. Web site: Tremaine Follows Bahcall's Stellar Path at the Institute. Town Topics. 9 April 2007.
  5. Web site: The Institute Letter. Institute for Advanced Studies. 9 April 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070403214554/http://www.ias.edu/about/publications/the-institute-letter/ . 3 April 2007.
  6. Web site: Bond awarded Dannie Heineman Prize. University of Toronto. 9 April 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070404214854/http://www.news.utoronto.ca/bin2/020129b.asp . 4 April 2007.
  7. Web site: Canadian Asteroids. Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. 9 April 2007. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20070106173741/http://www.srac.ca/education/asteroids.shtml. 6 January 2007. dmy-all.
  8. Web site: Asteroid 3806 named after eminent Canadian astrophysicist. Discovery Channel. 9 April 2007.
  9. Web site: Look, up in the Sky. University of Toronto. 9 April 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070404205809/http://www.news.utoronto.ca/bin/bulletin/march17_97/art1.htm . 4 April 2007.
  10. Web site: McMaster Times – Spring 1997 . 28 May 2007 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20050929052433/http://www.mcmaster.ca/ua/opr/times/spring97/alumalb.htm . 29 September 2005 .
  11. Web site: Asteroids (minor planets) related to UofT people. https://web.archive.org/web/20021117064932/http://www.astro.utoronto.ca/asteroids.html. dead. 17 November 2002. 28 May 2007. dmy-all.
  12. Book: Beyond Pluto: Exploring the outer limits of the solar system . John Davies. Cambridge University Press. 2001. 191.
  13. Web site: Institute for Advanced Study: Faculty and Emeriti: Tremaine. Institute for Advanced Study. 9 April 2007. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20070129040407/http://www.ias.edu/about/faculty-and-emeriti/tremaine. 29 January 2007. dmy-all.
  14. Web site: Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics. University of Toronto's The Bulletin. 9 April 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070404210655/http://www.news.utoronto.ca/bin/bulletin/june3_96/awards.htm . 4 April 2007.
  15. Web site: Featured speakers for the CUPC 2003. Canadian Undergraduate Physics Conference. 9 April 2007. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20041207085646/http://www.ugrad.physics.mcgill.ca/~cupc/english/speakers.html#tremaine. 7 December 2004. dmy-all.
  16. Web site: Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics. University of Toronto Bulletin. 30 May 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070524001851/http://www.news.utoronto.ca/bin/bulletin/june9_97/awards.htm . 24 May 2007.
  17. Web site: ASTROPHYSICIST SCOTT TREMAINE JOINS THE FACULTY OF THE INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY. Institute for Advanced Study. 9 April 2007. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20071219190302/http://www.ias.edu/newsroom/announcements/view/tremaine.html. 19 December 2007. dmy-all.
  18. Web site: Top physicist gains stellar appointment. University of Toronto. 9 April 2007.
  19. Web site: SIGCHI organizers. 30 May 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070219165649/http://www.sigchi.org/cuu/organizers.html . 19 February 2007.
  20. Web site: Historical Background of Saturn's Rings. Calvin J. Hamilton. NASA/JPL/Ron Baalke. 9 April 2007.
  21. Web site: Chaos Seen in Movement of Ring-Herding Moons of Saturn. NASA/JPL. 9 April 2007.
  22. Web site: New Clues Emerge in Mystery of Planetary Rings. The New York Times. 9 April 2007. 27 June 1989.
  23. Web site: Frequently Asked Questions About Saturn's Rings. https://web.archive.org/web/19991105133931/http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/saturn/faq.html. dead. 5 November 1999. NASA. 9 April 2007.
  24. Web site: Cosmologist Scott Tremaine receives two honors . Canadian Institute for Advanced Research . 9 April 2007 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071011062904/http://www.ciar.ca/web/home.nsf/pages/home.0380 . 11 October 2007 .
  25. Web site: UofT Asteroids. https://web.archive.org/web/20021117064932/http://www.astro.utoronto.ca/asteroids.html#tremaine. dead. 17 November 2002. University of Toronto. 9 April 2007. dmy-all.
  26. Web site: Galactic Dynamics. Binney, J.. Tremaine, S.. amp. Princeton University Press. 9 April 2007. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20070420125120/http://press.princeton.edu/titles/2537.html. 20 April 2007. dmy-all.
  27. Web site: Scott Tremaine. International Center for Scientific Research. 9 April 2007.
  28. Web site: Tremaine to Receive 1997 Brouwer Award. Harvard University. 9 April 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070509201421/http://dda.harvard.edu/brouwer_award/brouw97.html . 9 May 2007.
  29. Book: Citations for 1987gady.book.....B from the ADS Databases. NASA's Astrophysical Data System. 1987gady.book.....B. 1987.
  30. Web site: Binney:Galactic Dynamics – Google Scholar. 9 April 2007.
  31. Web site: Where Comets Come From. Discovery Magazine. 9 April 2007.
  32. Web site: Pluto's Exotic Playmates. KENNETH CHANG. 12 September 2006. The New York Times. 9 April 2007.
  33. Web site: Hubble Finds Mysterious Disk of Blue Stars Around A Black Hole. Science Daily. 9 April 2007.
  34. Web site: AAS Fellows. AAS. 30 September 2020.
  35. Web site: News | University of Toronto.
  36. Web site: U. of T. The Bulletin, June 9/97, Faculty of Arts & Science. University of Toronto. 9 April 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070404205439/http://www.news.utoronto.ca/bin/bulletin/june9_97/awards.htm . 4 April 2007.
  37. Web site: RSC: The Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada : Rutherford Memorial Medals in Physics. The Royal Society of Canada. 9 April 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070927195202/http://www.rsc.ca/index.php?page=citations_rutherford&page_id=155&lang_id=1#TOC . 27 September 2007.
  38. Web site: Winners of the Canadian C.S. Beals Award. Canadian Astronomical Society. 9 April 2007. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20070709085539/http://www.cascaeducation.ca/files/cdn_astronomerbeals.html#tremaine. 9 July 2007. dmy-all.
  39. Web site: Carlyle Smith Beals (1899–1979). 9 April 2007.
  40. Web site: AAS Prizes and Awards. American Astronomical Society. 9 April 2007. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20070404093144/http://www.aas.org/grants/awards.html. 4 April 2007. dmy-all.

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