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Jack Wisdom

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Position: Professor
Office: 32-386
Phone: +1 (617) 253-7730
Email: wisdom@csail.mit.edu
Areas of Study: 100

Last Update: July 9, 2008
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Biography

Jack Wisdom received a B.S in Physics from Rice University in 1976 and a Ph.D. in Pysics from the California Institute of Technology in 1981.

His Research interests include Long-term evolution of the orbits and spins of the planets and natural satellites; qualitative behavior of dynamical systems; chaotic behavior; dynamics of planetary rings.

Publications

Please see http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/users/wisdom/.

Awards

National Academy of Sciences: Member (2008)
AAS/DPS: Brouwer Award (2002)
MacArthur Foundation: MacArthur Fellows Program (1994)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences: Fellow (1992)
NSF: Presidential Young Investigator Award (1988)
AAS: Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy (1987)
AAS/DPS: Harold C. Urey Prize (1986)
Rice University: Claude W. Heaps Prize (1975)

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