Jack Wisdom

[Edit Jack Wisdom] Position: Professor Office: 32-386 Phone: +1 (617) 253-7730 Email: Areas of Study: 100 Personal Website Last Update: July 9, 2008 Download vCard

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
• AAS/DPS: Brouwer Award
• MacArthur Foundation: MacArthur Fellows Program
• American Academy of Arts and Sciences: Fellow
• NSF: Presidential Young Investigator Award
• AAS: Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy
• AAS/DPS: Harold C. Urey Prize
• Rice University: Claude W. Heaps Prize