Douglas C. Heggie
Douglas C. Heggie FRSE | |
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Born | Douglas Cameron Heggie 7 February 1947 Edinburgh, Scotland |
Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
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Institutions | University of Cambridge University of Edinburgh |
Thesis | Binary Evolution in Stellar Dynamics (1972) |
Doctoral advisor | Sverre Aarseth |
Website | www |
Douglas Cameron Heggie
Research
Heggie has conducted pioneering theoretical research on the topic of the
One of the originators of the current paradigm of the dynamical evolution of collisional stellar systems, he has made seminal contributions also to the quantitative study of prehistoric mathematics and astronomy. On these subjects, he has authored or co-authored of two books: The Gravitational Million-Body Problem: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Star Cluster Dynamics[2] and Megalithic Science: Ancient Mathematics and Astronomy in North-west Europe.[3]
Education and career
Educated at George Heriot's School in Edinburgh, Scotland (Captain and Dux 1965),[4] he spent a decade as an undergraduate student (Wrangler 1968), graduate student (PhD 1973), and research fellow (1972–1976) at Trinity College, Cambridge and Institute of Theoretical Astronomy. Following his appointment to a Lectureship (1975) at the then Department of Mathematics in Edinburgh, his entire professional career has been based there, with prolonged research visits to Princeton,[5] Cambridge, Kyoto, and Warsaw.[6]
He was appointed Professor of Mathematical Astronomy at the University of Edinburgh in 1994, has held visiting professorships at
Among other indicators of esteem, he has served as the President of Commission 37 of the
Honours
Recipient of the Tyson Medal (1969) and Smith's Prize (1971). Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1989).
References
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- ^ "The Gravitational Million-Body Problem: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Star Cluster Dynamics". Cambridge University Press.
- ISBN 0500272115.
- ^ "George Heriot's School Captains and Duces". george-heriots.com. Archived from the original on 15 February 2019. Retrieved 15 February 2019.
- ^ "IAS Visiting Scholars". www.ias.edu.
- ^ "Invited Speakers – ANZIAM 2014". anziam2014.auckland.ac.nz.
- ^ "IAU Commission 37: "Star Clusters and Associations" (Triennium 1985–1988)". iau.org.
External links
- Scholarly publications (in Astronomy and Astrophysics) by Douglas C. Heggie from the NASA Astrophysical Data System
- "The Million Body Problem", Public Lecture, Friends of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, 2009
- "Research in a Nutshell – Applied Mathematics – D.C. Heggie", Lay description of research in one minute (Million-body simulation of globular cluster M4), University of Edinburgh, 2012
- "Michel Hénon contributions to collisional stellar systems", Lecture in memoriam of Michel Hénon, Gravasco trimester at Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, FR, 2013
- "Modelling and understanding globular clusters", Lecture series, Kavli Summer Program in Astrophysics (formerly ISIMA), Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, Toronto, ON, CAN, 2014