George William Hill
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George William Hill (March 3, 1838 – April 16, 1914), was a U.S. astronomer and mathematician.
Hill was born in New York City, New York, and moved to West Nyack with his family when he was eight years old. After attending high school, Hill graduated from Rutgers University in 1859. From 1861, he worked at the Nautical Almanac Office in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His work focused on the mathematics describing the three-body problem, later the four-body problem, to calculate the orbits of the Moon around the Earth, as well as that of planets around the Sun.
He became president of the American Mathematical Society in 1894, serving for two years. He was elected to the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1908, as well as to the academies of Belgium (1909), Christiania (1910), Sweden (1913), among others.
Hill died in West Nyack, New York.
Honors
Awards- Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1887)
- Damoiseau Prize from the Institut de France (1898)
- Copley Medal (1909)
- Bruce Medal (1909)
- Hill crater on the Moon
- Asteroid 1642 Hill
External link
- John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson. [] at the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
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