Jack Wisdom is a Professor of Planetary Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Planetary science, also known as planetology and closely related to planetary astronomy, is the Science of Planets or Planetary systems He received his Ph. D from Caltech in 1981. The California Institute of Technology (commonly referred to as Caltech) is a private, Coeducational research university located in Pasadena Year 1981 ( MCMLXXXI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 His research interests are the dynamics of the Solar System. In physics the term dynamics customarily refers to the time evolution of physical processes The Solar System consists of the Sun and those celestial objects bound to it by Gravity.

Wisdom's 1981 dissertation demonstrated for the first time the theoretical reason for the clearing of the Kirkwood gaps in the asteroid belt. A dissertation (also called thesis or disquisition) is a document that presents the author's Research and findings and is submitted in support of candidature Kirkwood gaps are gaps or dips in the distribution of Main belt Asteroids with Semi-major axis (or equivalently their Orbital period) as seen ^[1][2][3] His work has also brought to light the chaotic rotation of Hyperion^[4] and chaos in the orbital evolution of Pluto. In Mathematics, chaos theory describes the behavior of certain dynamical systems – that is systems whose state evolves with time – that may exhibit dynamics that TemplateInfobox Planet.--> Hyperion (haɪˈpɪəriən, or as in In Mathematics, chaos theory describes the behavior of certain dynamical systems – that is systems whose state evolves with time – that may exhibit dynamics that ^[5]

Wisdom is credited with developing "numerous analytical and numerical techniques" that are fundamental to modern celestial mechanics,^[3] most notably the symplectic map for the n-body problem (developed together with Matthew J. Holman),^[6] which "now forms the core of nearly every solar system dynamics integration scheme in use today. Celestial mechanics is the branch of Astrophysics that deals with the motions of Celestial objects The field applies principles of Physics, historically In Mathematics, a symplectic integrator (SI is a numerical integration scheme for a specific group of differential equations related to Classical mechanics The n -body problem is the problem of finding given the initial positions masses and velocities of n bodies their subsequent motions as determined by Matthew J Holman (* 1967 is a Smithsonian Astrophysicist and lecturer at Harvard University. "^[3]

Jack Wisdom is co-author of Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics. Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics ( SICM) is a Classical mechanics Textbook written by Gerald Jay Sussman and His 2003 paper in Science^[7] on a new geometric phase effect which Wisdom calls "spacetime swimming" has attracted considerable attention, although it is not yet clear whether this effect has practical utility or even can be used to devise new tests of relativistic gravitation theories. Science is the Academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and is considered one of the world's most prestigious Scientific In mechanics (including Classical mechanics as well as Quantum mechanics) the Geometric phase, or the Pancharatnam-Berry phase (named after S

Awards

• H. C. Urey Prize of the American Astronomical Society (1986)
• Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy of the AAS (1987)
• MacArthur Fellowship from the MacArthur Foundation (1994)
• Brouwer Award of the Division on Dynamical Astronomy of the American Astronomical Society (2002)

External links

• Wisdom's academic home page
• Spacetime swimming from Chris Van Den Broeck (Astronomy, University of Wales)

References

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