Scott Tremaine

Scott Duncan Tremaine (born 1950)cite web|url = http://www.astro-canada.ca/_en/a2219.html|title = Scott Duncan Tremaine (1950- )
publisher = Virtual Museum of Canada|accessdate = 2007-04-09] [cite web|url = http://www.utpress.utoronto.ca/cgi-bin/cw2w3.cgi?p=tougas&t=48217&d=1404|title = Scott Duncan TREMAINE|work = Canadian Who's Who 1997 edition on the web|publisher = University of Toronto Press] 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. [cite web|url = http://www.towntopics.com/aug2306/other5.html|title = Tremaine Follows Bahcall's Stellar Path at the Institute|publisher = Town Topics|accessdate = 2007-04-09] Tremaine is widely regarded as one of the world's leading astrophysicists [cite web|url = http://www.ias.edu/about/publications/the-institute-letter/|title = The Institute Letter|publisher= Institute for Advanced Studies|accessdate = 2007-04-09] [cite web|url = http://www.news.utoronto.ca/bin2/020129b.asp|title = Bond awarded Dannie Heineman Prize|publisher = University of Toronto|accessdate = 2007-04-09] for his contributions to the theory of solar system and galactic dynamics. [cite web|url = http://www.srac.ca/education/asteroids.shtml|title = Canadian Asteroids|publisher = Royal Astronomical Society of Canada|accessdate = 2007-04-09] Tremaine is the namesake of asteroid 3806 Tremaine. [cite web|url = http://exn.ca/Stories/1997/03/04/03.asp|title = Asteroid 3806 named after eminent Canadian astrophysicist|publisher = Discovery Channel|accessdate = 2007-04-09] [cite web|url = http://www.news.utoronto.ca/bin/bulletin/march17_97/art1.htm|title = Look, up in the Sky|publisher = University of Toronto|accessdate = 2007-04-09] [cite web|url = http://www.mcmaster.ca/ua/opr/times/spring97/alumalb.htm|title = McMaster Times - Spring 1997|accessdate = 2007-05-28] [cite web|url = http://www.astro.utoronto.ca/asteroids.html|title = Asteroids (minor planets) related to UofT people|accessdate = 2007-05-28] He is credited with coining the name "Kuiper belt" [cite book|title=Beyond Pluto: Exploring the outer limits of the solar system |author=John Davies|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2001|pages=191]

cientific 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. [cite web|url = http://www.solarviews.com/eng/saturnbg.htm|title = Historical Background of Saturn's Rings|publisher = Calvin J. Hamilton|author = NASA/JPL/Ron Baalke|accessdate = 2007-04-09] [cite web|url = http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2002-190|title = Chaos Seen in Movement of Ring-Herding Moons of Saturn|publisher = NASA/JPL|accessdate = 2007-04-09] [cite web|url = http://partners.nytimes.com/library/national/science/062789sci-nasa-saturn.html|title = New Clues Emerge in Mystery of Planetary Rings|publisher = New York Times|accessdate = 2007-04-09|date=1989-06-27] The Saturnian moons Prometheus and Pandora were first observed in 1981 [cite web|url = http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/saturn/faq.html|title = Frequently Asked Questions About Saturn's Rings|publisher = NASA|accessdate = 2007-04-09] and shepherding moons were found around Uranus' rings in 1986.cite web|url = http://www.ciar.ca/web/home.nsf/pages/home.0380|title = Cosmologist Scott Tremaine receives two honors|publisher = Canadian Institute for Advanced Research|accessdate = 2007-04-09] Tremaine cowrote the book "Galactic Dynamics" with James Binney, which is often regarded as the standard reference in the field [cite web|url = http://www.astro.utoronto.ca/asteroids.html#tremaine|title = UofT Asteroids|publisher = University of Toronto|accessdate = 2007-04-09] [cite web|url = http://press.princeton.edu/titles/2537.html|title = Binney, J. and Tremaine, S.: Galactic Dynamics.|publisher = Princeton University Press|accessdate = 2007-04-09] [cite web|url = http://www.cirs-tm.org/researchers/researchers.php?id=181|title = Scott Tremaine|publisher = International Center for Scientific Research|accessdate = 2007-04-09] cite web|url = http://dda.harvard.edu/brouwer_award/brouw97.html|title = Tremaine to Receive 1997 Brouwer Award|publisher = Harvard University|accessdate = 2007-04-09] and has been cited more than three thousand times in scholarly publications. [cite web|url = http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-ref_query?bibcode=1987gady.book.....B&refs=CITATIONS&db_key=AST|title = Citations for 1987gady.book.....B from the ADS Databases|publisher = NASA's Astrophysical Data System|accessdate = 2007-04-09] [cite web|url = http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&client=firefox-a&cites=8438230377879290698|title = Binney:Galactic Dynamics - Google Scholar|accessdate = 2007-04-09] Tremaine, along with collaborators at the University of Toronto, showed that short period comets originate in the Kuiper belt. [cite web|url = http://discovermagazine.com/1995/nov/wherecometscomef583|title = Where Comets Come From|publisher = Discovery Magazine|accessdate = 2007-04-09] [cite web|url = http://www.nytimes.com/glogin?URI=http://gk.nytimes.com/mem/gatekeeper.html&OQ=_rQ3D1Q26URIQ3DhttpQ3AQ2FQ2Fwww.nytimes.comQ2F2006Q2F09Q2F12Q2FscienceQ2FspaceQ2F12belt.htmlQ26OQ51Q3D_rQ513D1Q5126thQ5126emcQ513DthQ26OPQ3D4aaef992Q512FW@XUW)Zb5Q513AZZrHWHwwiWwQ512BWQ5124HW5bQ517EXabXW5vTbXWQ5124HUX!rQ5125KrQ515B!&OP=4be62f24Q2F9lKX9D0tKQ2BQ5Eg9StVQ2BQ3BQ3BDk9Q3ByQ3CtKStKQ5E9dQ2BtKQ20KKQ3BKyQ27StV|title = Pluto’s Exotic Playmates|author = KENNETH CHANG|date = September 12th, 2006|publisher = New York Times|accessdate = 2007-04-09] Tremaine is credited with suggesting that the apparent "double nucleus" of the Andromeda Galaxy was in fact a single ring of old red stars. [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|accessdate = 2007-04-09]

Career

He obtained a bachelor's degree at McMaster University in 1971, and a Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1975. [cite web|url = http://www.ias.edu/about/faculty-and-emeriti/tremaine|publisher = Institute for Advanced Study|title=Institute for Advanced Study: Faculty and Emeriti: Tremaine|accessdate = 2007-04-09] He further received an honorary Ph.D. from McMaster University in 1996. [cite web|url = http://www.news.utoronto.ca/bin/bulletin/june3_96/awards.htm|title = Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics|publisher = University of Toronto's "The Bulletin"|accessdate = 2007-04-09] He was an associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1981 to 1985.cite web|url = http://www.ugrad.physics.mcgill.ca/~cupc/english/speakers.html#tremaine|publisher = Canadian Undergraduate Physics Conference|title = Featured speakers for the CUPC 2003|accessdate = 2007-04-09] 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. [cite web|url = http://www.news.utoronto.ca/bin/bulletin/june9_97/awards.htm|title = Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics|publisher = University of Toronto Bulletin|accessdate = 2007-05-30] In 1997, he left CITA and took up a position as a professor at Princeton University.

Scott Tremaine is currently a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study and chair of the Department of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University, a position he has held since 1998. [cite web|url = http://www.ias.edu/newsroom/announcements/view/tremaine.html|publisher = Institute for Advanced Study|title = ASTROPHYSICIST SCOTT TREMAINE JOINS THE FACULTY OF THE INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY|accessdate = 2007-04-09] [cite web|url = http://www.physics.utoronto.ca/news_repository/top-physicist-gains-stellar-appointment/|publisher = University of Toronto|title = Top physicist gains stellar appointment|accessdate = 2007-04-09] He has been married to Prof. Marilyn Mantei Tremaine for more than a decade, an expert in human-computer interaction who is the emeritus head of the SIGCHI section of the Association of Computing Machinery. [cite web|url = http://www.sigchi.org/cuu/organizers.html|title = SIGCHI organizers|accessdate = 2007-05-30]

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."

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. [cite web|url = http://www.cascaeducation.ca/files/cdn_astronomerbeals.html#tremaine|publisher = Canadian Astronomical Society|title = Winners of the Canadian C.S. Beals Award|accessdate = 2007-04-09] [cite web|url = http://www.astro-canada.ca/_en/a2204.html|title = Carlyle Smith Beals (1899-1979)|accessdate = 2007-04-09]

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". [cite web|url = http://www.aas.org/grants/awards.html|publisher = American Astronomical Society|title = AAS Prizes and Awards|accessdate = 2007-04-09]

Tremaine won the 1998 Dirk Brouwer Award which is awarded by the Division of Dynamical Astronomy of the American Astronomical Society [cite web|url = http://www.news.utoronto.ca/bin/bulletin/june9_97/awards.htm|publisher = University of Toronto|title = U. of T. The Bulletin, June 9/97, Faculty of Arts & Science|accessdate = 2007-04-09] "in recognition of his many outstanding contributions to a wide range of dynamical problems in both solar-system and galactic dynamics."

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". [cite web|url = http://www.rsc.ca/index.php?page=citations_rutherford&page_id=155&lang_id=1#TOC|publisher = The Royal Society of Canada|title = RSC: The Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada : Rutherford Memorial Medals in Physics|accessdate = 2007-04-09]

External links

* [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-abs_connect?db_key=AST&db_key=PRE&qform=AST&sim_query=YES&ned_query=YES&aut_xct=NO&aut_req=YES&aut_logic=OR&obj_logic=OR&author=Tremaine%2C+S&object=&start_mon=&start_year=&end_mon=&end_year=&ttl_logic=OR&title=&txt_logic=OR&text=&nr_to_return=1000&start_nr=1&jou_pick=ALL&ref_stems=&data_and=ALL&group_and=ALL&start_entry_day=&start_entry_mon=&start_entry_year=&end_entry_day=&end_entry_mon=&end_entry_year=&min_score=&sort=CITATIONS&data_type=SHORT&aut_syn=YES&ttl_syn=YES&txt_syn=YES&aut_wt=1.0&obj_wt=1.0&ttl_wt=0.3&txt_wt=3.0&aut_wgt=YES&obj_wgt=YES&ttl_wgt=YES&txt_wgt=YES&ttl_sco=YES&txt_sco=YES&version=1 Scholarly Works by Scott Tremaine from the Astrophysical Data System]
* [http://www.astro.princeton.edu/~tremaine/ Scott Tremaine's Homepage at Princeton University]

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