Jack Gilbert Hills (born 15 May 1943) is a theorist of stellar dynamics. He worked on the Oort cloud;[1] the inner part of it, the Hills cloud, was named after him.
Jack G. Hills | |
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 Jack Gilbert Hills | |
| Born | Jack Gilbert Hills May 15, 1943 Kevlavik, Iceland |
| Citizenship | U.S. |
| Known for | Stellar dynamics |
He studied at the University of Kansas, where he was awarded an A.B. in 1966 and an M.A. in 1967. He was also awarded an M.S. by the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.[2]
He spent much of his professional career at Los Alamos National Laboratory, which named him a Laboratory Fellow in 1998.[3]
The Hills mechanism in astrophysics is also named after him. He proposed the mechanism in the 1980s.
He was inducted a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1983. His citation read that he was proposed for "seminal theoretical work on the physics of dense stellar systems and in particular for proposing and developing his model of the energy source of quasars."[4]
References
edit- ^ "Stellar Dynamics: Jack Hills". Department of Physics and Astronomy. Archived from the original on 15 December 2014.
- ^ American Men and Women of Science. p. 301.
- ^ Laboratory Fellows from 1981 to the present Los Alamos National Security J. G. Hills has made large contributions to Laboratory and international programs in astrophysics, interplanet science, and asteroid interdiction. He also is recognized worldwide as one of the major authorities in the field of stellar dynamics and has made seminal contributions to the quantitative understanding of interactions between binary and single stars in clusters.
- ^ "APS Fellow Archive". ACS. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
External links
edit- Jack G. Hills (1981). "Comet showers and the steady-state infall of comets from the Oort Cloud". Astronomical Journal. 86: 1730–1740. Bibcode:1981AJ.....86.1730H. doi:10.1086/113058.
- J. G. Hills (1984). "Dynamical constraints on the mass and perihelion distance of Nemesis and the stability of its orbit". Nature. 311 (5987): 636–638. Bibcode:1984Natur.311..636H. doi:10.1038/311636a0. S2CID 4237439.
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