Carl E. Heiles
Carl Eugene Heiles (born September 22, 1939 in Toledo , Ohio ) is an American astronomer .
Heiles graduated from Cornell University with a bachelor's degree in engineering in 1962 and received a PhD in astrophysics from Princeton University in 1966 . Since 1966 he has been a professor at the University of California, Berkeley . In 1973 he became a Sloan Research Fellow .
In 1983 he was visiting scholar at the University of Grenoble , 1969/70 at Cornell University and in 1990 at the University of Colorado Boulder .
He deals with radio astronomy and interstellar matter (role of diffuse gases). In 1982 he was involved in the discovery of the first millisecond pulsar PSR B 1937 + 21, with a rotation time of 1.55 milliseconds.
With Michel Hénon he is known for the Henon Heiles model, which is important in chaos theory .
He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1989 he received the Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics .
Web links
- Literature by and about Carl E. Heiles in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Homepage
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
- ↑ Donald C. Backer , Shrinivas R. Kulkarni , Carl Heiles, Michael M. Davis and W. Miller Goss: A millisecond pulsar. In: Nature . Volume 300, 1982, pp. 615-618, doi: 10.1038 / 300615a0 .
- ^ Henon, Heiles, The applicability of the third integral of motion: Some numerical experiments , The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 69, 1964, pp. 73-79
- ^ Henon Heiles Equation at Mathworld
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Heiles, Carl E. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Heiles, Carl Eugene (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American astronomer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 22, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Toledo , Ohio |